Re: Bundles in Agora

[c.]

On 28 Oct 2012, at 07:26, c. wrote:

> Hi Wendy,
> 
> Thank you very much for working on this!
> 
> On 27 Oct 2012, at 22:51, Wendy Liu wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 1) "Description"
>>   Bundles formatted as Octave loadable packages do include a "DESCRIPTION" 
>> file,
>>   wouldn't it be possible to parse that directly as it is currently done to 
>> create
>>   the package page on Octave-Forge?
>> 
>> Done, you can see a demo here: 
>> http://agora.dellsystem.me/bundles/testing/description-test Let me know if 
>> that's not what you had in mind.
> 
> Sort of, it seems you are just copying the contents of the DESCRIPTION file 
> verbatim on the page, aren't you?
> 
> What I had in mind was rather something like this:
> http://octave.sourceforge.net/bim/index.html
> 
> Here the DESCRIPTION file is being parsed by an Octave script and the 
> contents are used to compose the web page for the package.
> 
> For example, the version number in Agora is now 
> 
> "version 1" 
> 
> because that is the first time I uploaded the package while on Octave-Forge 
> the version number given in the DESCRIPTION file is used, that is:
> 
> "Package Version:     1.1.1"
> 
> And also notice that you don't need to write code to do this kind of parsing 
> from scratch as it is already available in generate_html.
> 
> c.
> 

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c.