32. Steal from other package meta specs Proposal:
Hunt down the spec authors and some heavy package users, ask what in the spec/package meta files works for them and what doesn't, then steal the best features. -- Daxim * [http://www.haskell.org/cabal/ Cabal] example: [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/Pugs/6.2.13.14/Pugs.cabal] * [http://rubygems.org/ Gems] spec: [http://rubygems.org/read/chapter/20] * [http://pear.php.net/ PEAR] package.xml: [http://pear.php.net/manual/en/guide.developers.package2.intro.php] * [http://pypi.python.org/ PyPI] uses [http://trac.usefulinc.com/doap DOAP], [http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=doap&name=tabular&version=0.0.1 example] * cpan-workers once talked about [http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-OSD OSD]