[haiku-development] PackageInfo format: "pretty" names?
- From: Julian Harnath <julian.harnath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 03:01:49 +0200
Hello,
another little question regarding packages.
The "name"-field in the PackageInfo-files doesn't allow whitespace, and for
current packags, is always lowercase.
Would it be possible to also have another "pretty name" field for showing to
the user, allowing whitespace etc?
In the list in HaikuDepot having all_names_like_this looks a bit ugly IMO. Say
we had a FireFox-port, then the name showing up as "Mozilla FireFox" would look
better than "mozilla_firefox". Or for a font package something like "Droid font
family" instead of "droid_fonts".
And yes, it's just a minor detail, I know :-) The reason I bring it up now
anyway is that I expect many recipe files to be written (or older BEPs
converted) in the coming months and if we do want such an additional name
field, it would be better to add it now so all the recipes don't have to be
touched yet again later...
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So long, jua
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