[arch-dev-public] [RFC] archweb nvchecker integration

[Jelle van der Waa]

On 01/02/2022 21:54, George Rawlinson via arch-dev-public wrote:
> On 22-02-01 08:21, Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public wrote:
>> These require running arbitrary scripts on archweb so they should probably remain
>> unsupported. Is there no better options?
> 
> At this stage, the following [community] packages that I maintain
> require massaging of HTML sources:
> 
> * html-xml-utils
> * oil
> * parallel
> * libmilter (bundled with sendmail source)
> * time
> 
> I suppose if a nvchecker plugin existed that utilised bs4 (beautiful
> soup), that would work. But I assume that would still fit your
> definition of "arbitrary script". :p

Good that you bring this up, I'm leaning towards only support the 
default plugins for now. I think that already is an huge improvement 
over our current state. We can make an improvement issue and look what 
we can do about it :)

Thanks,

Jelle van der Waa
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