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From: Kent Fredric <kentfredric@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: New irc data field in layman's repositories.xml file format
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:52:20 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAATnKFAdyDvt8EAC2=r4wtRBBYFL4OgKedr6hiAW4-qydhKjZw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331456941.29064.34.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca>

On 11 March 2012 22:09, Brian Dolbec <dolsen@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> eg:
>
>    <irc>Channel #gentoo-guis on the freenode network</irc>
> or
>    <irc>#gentoo-guis on the freenode IRC network, irc://irc.gentoo.org/gentoo-guis</irc>
>

Though a freeform text field is probably better for humans, I'd
suggest having more explicit data available as an option, ie:

<irc network="irc.freenode.org" channel="#gentoo-guis">Channel
#gentoo-guis on the freenode network</irc>

This way you can put more behaviour on the display side in whatever UA
is processing the XML, for example, you could easily add support for
some GUI portage tool to add an "IRC" button on relevant packages
being displayed, that opens the IRC channel listed in the users chosen
IRC client ( as configured in the GUI's preferences ).


-- 
Kent

perl -e  "print substr( \"edrgmaM  SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3,
3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );"



  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-12  7:53 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 [this message]
2012-03-12  8:49   ` Robin H. Johnson
2012-03-13  8:33     ` Brian Dolbec
2012-03-13 10:36       ` Jeroen Roovers
2012-03-13 10:45       ` Robin H. Johnson

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