Stefan Husmann wrote:
Ray Kohler schrieb:
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Xyne <xyne@archlinux.ca> wrote:
nathan duane <ndowens04@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a suggestion, it would be nice to have a text editor for the AUR page so u could edit your PKGBUILDs without having to download then resubmit I think that's an interesting idea and it should only need a few tweaks to the code that displays the PKGBUILDs already (wrap the output in a text area, add it to a form and then handle the POST data).
If we added this then changed the AUR so that any registered user could edit any orphaned package online, it might encourage drive-by updates. This would not present any new security concerns because any registered user can already adopt a package, edit it, upload it then disown it. On the other hand, not having to jump through those hoops might encourage people to update it on the spot.
This might make such drive-by updates so easy that, since users would no longer have to download the package data at all, they would submit their edits without even bothering to compile-test them. At least now it's likely that most people would at least run makepkg since it's only a single extra step once you have it all downloaded and updated.
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Stefan hmm if there was some way for makepkg to generate a code after it compiles fine, then have to put the code in the webpage before it will allow the upload