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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 46: Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:49:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080119194912.3ccb9ef1@snowcone> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7c612fc60801190724lfe4895ne7860d4d93e9d038@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:24:53 +0100
"Denis Dupeyron" <calchan@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2008 2:07 PM, Tiziano Müller <dev-zero@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Your oppinion?
> 
> Would this be the right time to discuss about moving other variables
> to metadata.xml ? How about HOMEPAGE, DESCRIPTION and LICENSE ? Those
> hardly change and if they ever do we can restrict them to specific
> versions. I know there could be technical hurdles, but what do you
> think of the idea at least ?

At least LICENSE is no go, since the package manager needs it. Having
DESCRIPTION and HOMEPAGE available to the package manager even when XML
goes splat is probably useful too...

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-19 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-19 13:07 [gentoo-dev] GLEP 46: Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml Tiziano Müller
2008-01-19 14:17 ` Santiago M. Mola
2008-01-19 14:56   ` [gentoo-dev] " Tiziano Müller
2008-04-10 19:09   ` [gentoo-dev] " Rob Cakebread
2008-01-19 14:52 ` Mark Loeser
2008-01-19 16:14   ` [gentoo-dev] " Tiziano Müller
2008-01-19 14:55 ` [gentoo-dev] " Alistair Bush
2008-01-19 15:13   ` [gentoo-dev] " Tiziano Müller
2008-01-19 15:22     ` Santiago M. Mola
2008-01-19 15:24 ` [gentoo-dev] " Denis Dupeyron
2008-01-19 15:34   ` Santiago M. Mola
2008-01-19 15:45   ` [gentoo-dev] " Tiziano Müller
2008-01-19 19:49   ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]

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