[Gimp-web] Re: second generation plans for gimp-addresses

[Carol Spears]

On 2003-04-23 at 2130.00 +0200, Rapha?l Quinet typed this:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:37:27 -0400, Carol Spears <carol@gimp.org> wrote:
> > we were discussing a "How To Install MGO for Users" last night as well
> > as the need for comments in files like /admin/gimp-web-urls and i think
> > we discussed a few ideas that will lead to a second generation of this
> > format.
> [...]
> 
> I don't know if you had a look at the list of links that is used in the
> current (old) site, but I made them available online so that you can have
> a look at them:
>   http://www.gimp.org/~raphael/web-gimp/links.def
>   http://www.gimp.org/~raphael/web-gimp/links_bugs.def
> The format should not be too hard to understand (it is based on Emacs-lisp).
> Some definitions in links_bugs.def are a bit more complex because they are
> built from several parts (suffix, prefix) but they should still be easy to
> understant.  There are other *.def files used in the current site for
> dealing with things like the current list of mirrors or the latest news, but
> the links are probably what you are interested in.  I put some files there:
>   http://www.gimp.org/~raphael/web-gimp/
> 
> I will try to participate a bit more in these discussions in about two weeks,
> when I will (hopefully) have a bit more spare time.  In the meantime, I am
> sorry that I cannot contribute much.
> 
hi Rapha?l, welcome back

i guess i would prefer to discuss this after you have had a chance to
see what we are doing.  

after you "cvs checkout" for the first time, notice the number of htrw
files and how they utilize what is now known as /admin/gimp-web-urls and
tell me if we should stop what we are doing and use this old proven
method.

carol