[Buildroot] [PATCH] core/web-legal-info: Generate html page with minimal legal info

[Yann E. MORIN]

Thomas, All,

On 2019-10-31 22:38 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 23:40:07 +0100
> Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
> >  It is looking pretty good. I just have one major comment: it has to be flake8
> > compliant.
> 
> During the Buildroot Developers meeting, Nicolas Carrier worked on an
> alternate proposal that consists in generating an XML, and then use an
> XSLT stylesheet to have the browser render an HTML output:
> 
>   http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1185080/
> 
> I am personally not a big fan of XML/XSLT technologies, and we already
> have stuff in Buildroot that generates just pure HTML, so I would tend
> to prefer an approach such as the one proposed by Mickaël in this
> patch. Should we formally reject the proposal from Nicolas ?

In fact, I still prefer that we expose unformatted, un-rendered data,and
leave to the user the responsibility to inject that in whatever web
framework they are using. So far, the legal-info/ directory contained
only that: raw data. Arguably, the xml format is still kinda raw. The
rendered web-page, not so much, and will mostly never fir into the
user's web framework (and in my olpinion, does not bring much more than
a directory listing would provide).

So, my preference would be for Nicolas' patch (if it can be made to
work).

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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