Also a nice feature would be information pages for projects - when
clicking on a project image/name, a new page pops up, with some more
info about the project, what does the project need to run
(hardware/software/libraries), some screenshots (clicking on a thumbnail
brings up a larger shot), hardware the project was build on, target
platform, user comments, etc, etc (kinda like in www.happypenguin.org).Well, that’s what the URL is supposed to be for. I don’t have the resources
to set up entire mini-websites for each project; I’d much rather just send
the user to the real website for the project.
Actually Sam, what you could/should do is use some dynamic HTML method to
generate the list of stuff for SDL, sortof like a mini-freshmeat. That
way people could add their projects and update the status. It’s not a
very difficult thing to do if you’ve got *SQL running on the server, just
a little forms generation, maybe a simple user/passwd for people to be
able to change this stuff, and some automagic maintenance scripts. It’s
more work than EITHER OF US has time for, but it’s not generally complex
stuff, and I am sure there are some very qualified people who might be
willing to do that along with notifying you of new additions for purposes
of the SDL news postings.
If everybody who wrote an SDL project agreed to maintain such a page
separately from their own website, I might consider doing it, but as
it is, it’s better to just take the user to the project website.
A mini-page like Freshmeat uses can be generated pretty easily from a
database, which is maintainable largely by the people who make the thing.
There is a small amount of database maintenance, but it’s mostly automatic
unless the database goes south or something - dead link checking, deleting
users who have not logged in for 600 days (to keep the user database from
growing exponentially), that sort of thing…
However, if I have time, I might add an optional page that you could
create on the SDL website for your project containing that information.
This would be helpful for people who don’t have any web hosting features
at all… However there’s the problem of submitting files, and I don’t
really have time to set up something really nice at the moment.
This would be nifty, and I’m sure you can find help. =)On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:11:06AM -0700, Sam Lantinga wrote:
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Joseph Carter You expected a coherent reply?
<Culus_> We are also hoping to release a version of linux where shell is
replaced by perl to a large degree. Adding to that, there are a
few of us who would like to see a pure perl platform… PerlOS 
- Culus_ looks on in horror
Culus_: on the up side, you can type damn near anything in at the
command prompt
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