Hi everybuddy, I am wondering if it is possible and useful, to have a website with all source packages from our archive extracted and available. This could be enhanced by syntax highlighting and other fancy stuff. Possible uses for that might be: * As a package maintainer, I want to have a quick look at how maintainer X of package Y solved problem Z without having to download the complete source package. * As a user/administrator, I want to download the original version of a locally modified conffile. * If run on a developer accessible machine: As a DD, I want to run some tests/statistics/whatever on our sources. Technically, this probably only involves something that detects all changes (new packages/new versions/deletions) of source packages in the archive and then downloads and extracts this new version and some (mod-perl?)-magic that syntax-highlights the files if desired by the user. No idea yet how big this whole thing will be, but a machine like merkel (673G available) should easily host this thing. It is also strong enough to do on-the-fly syntax highlighting, I guess. Any comments? nomeata -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: joachimbreitner@amessage.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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