[Gnu-arch-users] Making archives and rbrowse self-documenting

[Scott Bronson]

Right now tla archives produces something like:

$ tla archives
address@hidden
    http://people.debian.org/~asuffield/archives/gluck-2004/
address@hidden
    http://arch.debian.org/arch/linux
address@hidden
    http://arch.linuxguru.net/~banderson/{public}/

It seems pretty important to make this output very readable and
understandable, especially now that the number of publicly available
archives is increasing pretty fast.


Here's one proposed output:

$ tla archives
Andrew Suffield's Debian-related packages
    address@hidden
John Goerzen's Arch-based Linux kernel repository
    address@hidden
Bob Anderson's arch bash completions
    address@hidden

$ tla archives --verbose
Andrew Suffield's Debian-related packages
    address@hidden
    http://people.debian.org/~asuffield/archives/gluck-2004/
John Goerzen's Arch-based Linux kernel repository
    address@hidden
    http://arch.debian.org/arch/linux
Bob Anderson's arch bash completions
    address@hidden
    http://arch.linuxguru.net/~banderson/{public}/


or, of course, maybe the reverse order makes more sense:

$ tla archives
address@hidden
    Andrew Suffield's Debian-related packages
address@hidden
    John Goerzen's Arch-based Linux kernel repository
address@hidden
    Bob Anderson's arch bash completions


To do this, you'd need to add a ++blurb file (or something like that) in
the archive to provide the information about the archive.

Would this be a good idea?

Thanks,

    - Scott