[aur-dev] Display of alternative source name instead of URL on packages' web pages

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 at 10:03:02, Christoph Gysin wrote:
> > Yes, this behavior is intended and I personally think it makes sense.
> > The semantics of sources the form filename::url is: Obtain the file from
> > the given URL but change the source name to the given file name. The
> > best way to replicate this semantics in HTML is to use the URL as link
> > target and use the name as link label.
> 
> Yes, I guess in the case of filename::url this makes perfect sense. In
> the example of Peter though, it's more obfuscating the git url.
> 

I don't quite understand this sentence because in Peter's example, the
source is of the form filename::url.

> One way to fix this of course is to not specify an alternative name:
> 
> source=("git+https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata.git")
> 
> But this is still an invalid url. If the url starts with "git+", that
> should be stripped at least from the href.
> 

URLs referring to a protocol other than HTTP/HTTPs are not invalid.

> I would suggest to use:
> 
> <a href="https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata.git">git+https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata.git</a>
> 

So you are suggesting to replace the link target with a link to another
URL? That is not a good idea because we cannot simply assume that they
mean the same thing in general. Also, if your browser does not know how
to handle the git+https protocol, that is a client configuration issue
and not a server issue (if you consider that an issue at all).

> Chris
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