Re: Bundles in Agora

[Wendy Liu]

On 28 October 2012 02:26, c. <address@hidden> 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.

Cool, I'll look into that. Thanks for the tip.