[tz] Simplification and unification of scheme:// anchors

Steffen Daode Nurpmeso sdaoden at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 11:44:17 UTC 2013


Ian Abbott <abbotti at mev.co.uk> wrote:
 |On 2013-01-27 00:45, Steffen Daode Nurpmeso wrote:
 |> Here is the promised patch.
 |> I would be happy if it would be included, so that i finally would
 |> have given something back to this project.
 |>
 |> I followed the style that is used the most, i.e., '<URL>'; if
 |> there
 |> were anchors with link text, i've used '<URL> (text)'.
 |> There may still be some cases were i've merged an existing '()'
 |> suffix with the link text, separated by a semicolon; these cases
 |> should all be dates, and there are links which used that format
 |> regulary.  Hmm.  Beside that any content change would be an
 |> oversight (i've also fixed at least two broken URL specs,
 |> however).
 |
 |I think this is much easier to read than the old href links, although 
 |several people on the mailing list dislike the angle brackets.

Ya, but there needs to be a way to differentiate in between links
that (may) work, and those that are known to be outdated.
And i think it was you who pointed out an example where the
mechanism of using <LINK> for (possibly) working links, and LINK
for known-not-to-work ones was already used in the current
database - and iirc there were some more of those.

 |> Because of the unpacked size i include the patchset as a shell
 |> archive with a compressed member; i have forgotten wether
 |> attachments are supported by the list or not, sorry.
 |
 |You could maybe have posted the 8 patches individually in plain text, 
 |rather than a sharchived, compressed mbox!

If you promise not to laugh..
The funny thing is that i've tried to use git(1)s send-email (i do
have a stale tool around that offers a mode which echoes all the
necessary parameters for this very case), but had to realize that
i've overwritten a locally patched git-send-email when i've
updated git last so that the installed version failed with

  die "Unable to initialize SMTP properly. Check config and use --smtp-debug. "

And i was too tired to dig into this.
Oth i'm even lucky since i'm personally so sick of '[PATCH]'
subjects all around that the handmade version fits better to me
and i.

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