From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: New irc data field in layman's repositories.xml file format
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:36:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120313113628.4d411dd3@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331627608.29064.88.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca>
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:33:28 -0700
Brian Dolbec <dolsen@gentoo.org> wrote:
> The proper form of an irc url is in my example
> "irc://irc.gentoo.org/gentoo-guis" and I took it from gentoo's irc
> channel page at http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/irc.xml .
Exactly. Most web browsers would know what to do with that, too.
> That would mean limiting a single <irc></irc> field to just valid
> url's just like the <homepage></homepage> field.
>
> <irc>irc://irc.gentoo.org/gentoo-guis</irc>
Why not go with a slight variant of the venerable <a href> format?
<irc uri="irc://irc.example.com/gentoo-guis">Your support channel
is here</irc>
Either that or use two tags, <uri> and <description> nested in an <irc>
tag?
jer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-13 10:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-11 9:09 [gentoo-dev] Proposal: New irc data field in layman's repositories.xml file format Brian Dolbec
2012-03-12 7:52 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-12 8:49 ` Robin H. Johnson
2012-03-13 8:33 ` Brian Dolbec
2012-03-13 10:36 ` Jeroen Roovers [this message]
2012-03-13 10:45 ` Robin H. Johnson
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