[aur-general] AUR package updating enhancements

[Nélson «VuDu» Cunha]

Ok,
five consecutive negative replies ought to be enough, even if some of
them look like they just read the last reply before them and simply
missed my point.
If I would've start this in the forums instead and maybe I could get a
couple of neutral or even positive (in a constructive way) comments,
who knows?
Clearly my fault... this is a mailing list after all!

Still, thanks for the replies ;)

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:20, Loui Chang<louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu 27 Aug 2009 01:47 +0200, Arkham wrote:
>>
>> On 27/ago/09, at 01:35, Nélson «VuDu» Cunha wrote:
>>
>> >Sorry, but please don't try to make it sound like I said that because
>> >that's not an argument at all.
>> >Following what I said before, making steps harder isn't necessarily
>> >going to make people walk through them more carefully.
>> >I don't agree that an on-line code editor would make people do more
>> >mistakes, because good maintainers would continue to test the PKGBUILD
>> >before making the changes on the on-line editor, or just simply not
>> >using it.
>> >An editor would just save the pain to archive and upload (not testing
>> >them) simple changes to the PKGBUILD, that make probably the biggest
>> >part of AUR packages updates.
>>
>> I don't understand why the developers should write, test and deploy
>> new code in the website to perform a task that can already be done
>> with CLI tools. Which is exactly "the pain to archive and upload"?
>> makepkg--source && $AUR_HELPER *.src.tar.gz isn't much of pain to me
>> :)
>> Another issue that comes to my mind: how would you update the md5sums
>> with the online editor?
>
> Yeah this was already brought up, not too long ago.
> An editor will not be implemented for the AUR. There are already many
> capable editors available such as vim, or emacs. Please choose one of
> them.
>
> There's no point in adding an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden
> slow implementation of half of a text editor to the AUR.
>
> You're lucky enough to get a textbox for comments. ;)
>
> Good luck!
>
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