Re: updating mkreadme for packages to use index.html

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:02:14AM +0000, nia wrote:
> recently i've been maintaining mkreadme a bit, you can see the
> fruits of my labour here:
> 
> http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/README.html

Neat!

> i would like to update the script so the filenames it generates
> are named index.html instead of README.html, as this is mostly
> what web servers and browsers expect to be serving for a directory
> display, and i think the URLs are much nicer.
> 
> this would mean that e.g. the raw filenames in
> http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/news/
> 
> are no longer direcctly browsable, but i suspect anyone
> looking for raw pkgsrc recipes is more interested in either
> the version control repository or pkgsrc.tar.gz.

Sounds good to me.
 Thomas