Re: gsl package page on OF

[Julien Bect]

Le 17/08/2017 à 09:56, Olaf Till a écrit :
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 11:14:18PM +0200, Julien Bect wrote:
> > Hi Olaf,
> >
> > I just noticed a tiny problem on the gsl package page :
> > https://octave.sourceforge.io/gsl/index.html.
> >
> > I had inserted a link to AUTHORS.html in the "Package author:" field but it
> > wasn't converted correctly.  Can you please fix that?
> I've removed that link. Maybe you have to relode the page to fight
> your browser cache.

Ok, thank you.


> > Is it even possible to have a link there or should I remove it for the next
> > release of the package?
> I isn't possible, since that field is displayed literally to allow
> special characters.
>
> We could write code to scan the field for links, or define a syntax
> which is converted to a link. But to me this doesn't seem appropriate
> for this field.

Ok, I will simply remove the link for the next release.


> Information on contributors or history could go into a package manual;
> as you know, we already have the option (in generate_html and the
> website code) to display a fancy link to such a manual.

Sure, this would be a natural option.  Perhaps one day...


> Also, we could include an option to display an extra link to
> "Contributors". If you think this could be good, I'd insert it into
> our task list.

Might be a good idea.

@++
Julien