Hello Stuart, Hello Mikhail.
Thank you very much for your feedback. You mentioned an aspect which I have completely overlooked in my proposal: EFFORT. To me, adding a handful of URLs and SHA256 sums seems negligible. Plus, I envisioned the pkg/SCREENSHOTS file as something optional, not mandatory. Even more so since it does not always makes sense. (For example with all the directories starting with p5-...) For the record, I was inspired by the ports/games directory. There, having screenshots would make sense. (IMHO) And just to make sure that there is no miscommunication: What I wanted to propose was a formalization of adding screenshots to the ports tree. I did not mean to suggest a complete overhaul of the ports, or for somebody to actually write a software catalogue. (A "store" as Mikhail said). At most my proposal would lead to a new paragraph within the porter's handbook. Thomas On 6/18/22 17:23, Stuart Henderson wrote:
sorry, I think adding references to screenshots is going to be way too much work for the limited number of porters we have to handle - it's tricky enough to handle regular updates and helping new people learn the ropes; handling diffs and commits to get this into the ports tree will take a lot of our time (and even then, will be a lot of work to get anything approaching good coverage of the ports tree) it is the sort of things someone could build externally if they wanted, keyed on pkgpath ..