Re: CMSP 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field

2009-10-31 Thread Barbie
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 08:19:29AM -0400, Ricardo Signes wrote: * David Golden xda...@gmail.com [2009-10-09T07:47:00] 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field Strongly oppose. The META file is meant to tell machines about dists. This will not be useful. Agreed. This kind of information

Re: CMSP 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field

2009-10-10 Thread Zefram
David Golden wrote: Add free-text entries that *describe* prerequisites that cannot be described right now, No thanks. Let's work on ways to machine-readably describe more kinds of prerequisite. C library dependencies are currently a pain to deal with, but their names are reasonably invariant,

Re: CMSP 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field

2009-10-09 Thread Ricardo Signes
* David Golden xda...@gmail.com [2009-10-09T07:47:00] 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field Strongly oppose. The META file is meant to tell machines about dists. This will not be useful. -- rjbs

Re: CMSP 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field

2009-10-09 Thread Hans Dieter Pearcey
Excerpts from David Golden's message of Fri Oct 09 07:47:00 -0400 2009: 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field Proposal: Add free-text entries that *describe* prerequisites that cannot be described right now, like prerequisite: a working libexpat, Need a perl with defined-or, Need root

Re: CMSP 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field

2009-10-09 Thread Steffen Mueller
Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote: Excerpts from David Golden's message of Fri Oct 09 07:47:00 -0400 2009: 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field Proposal: Add free-text entries that *describe* prerequisites that cannot be described right now, like prerequisite: a working libexpat, Need a perl with

Re: CMSP 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field

2009-10-09 Thread David Golden
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Steffen Mueller nj88ud...@sneakemail.com wrote: Putting human-readable stuff in a file intended primarily for machine-readability seems of minimal use to me. I'm in two minds about this. Such a free form field may be useful if you consider that human-readable

Re: CMSP 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field

2009-10-09 Thread Ruslan Zakirov
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Ricardo Signes perl.cpanw...@rjbs.manxome.org wrote: * David Golden xda...@gmail.com [2009-10-09T07:47:00] 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field Strongly oppose.  The META file is meant to tell machines about dists.  This will not be useful. Partly disagree.

Re: CMSP 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field

2009-10-09 Thread Randy Kobes
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Graham Barr gb...@pobox.com wrote: On Oct 9, 2009, at 6:47 AM, David Golden wrote: 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field Proposal: Add free-text entries that *describe* prerequisites that cannot be described right now, like prerequisite: a working