[Octave-patch-tracker] [patch #8787] Octave Forge: Improve package overview page

[Carnë Draug]

Follow-up Comment #19, patch #8787 (project octave):

So I tried to work on this and found out that my HTML and CSS are pretty bad.
I'm also thinking that having the generate_html package create a
short_package_description doesn't work very well because it's preventing us
from making changes easily.

What if the generate_html package insteads adds a metadata.json file.  We can
either have them read on the fly each time or have something on the server
that creates a short_package_description when I upload the html.


$json = file_get_contents ($pkg_name . "/metadata.json");
if (! $json)
  continue;

$metadata = json_decode ($json);
if (is_null ($metadata))
  continue;


Where the json file can be something like:


{
  "name" : "interval",
  "desc" : "The interval package for real-valued interval arithmetic allows 
one to evaluate functions over subsets of their domain",
  "link" :
"http://downloads.sourceforge.net/octave/interval-1.3.0.tar.gz?download";,
}


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