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Re: Two new "categories" created. Comment needed
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>
> > [snip]
> >
> > Barring a complete update to setup.exe to handle removed packages, I
> > think we might want adjust the script that generates
> > http://cygwin.com/packages/ to make it ignore packages in the
> > ZZZRemovedPackages category, which will remove lots of clutter from the
> > pages it generates. This is not essential however.
> >
> > Harold
>
> FWIW, one thing I've always wanted to see on those pages is the list of
^^^^^
> categories, and, perhaps, the sdesc (or even ldesc), as otherwise I always
^
...for each package...
> have to go edit my local copy of setup.ini to get them. Not very related,
> but there are changes planned to the generation scripts, I thought I'd get
> this in...
> Igor
> P.S. I could submit a patch for the "package-cat.cgi" script, but I have
> no idea what generates the listings -- "upset", maybe?
By "those" (above) I meant the contents listing page for individual
packages, although it might be nice to have categories on the packages
page, too.
Igor
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