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 ..


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