Re: CMSP 04. Formalize allowed version number formats

2009-10-31 Thread David Golden
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:43 AM, David Golden xda...@gmail.com wrote: 04. Formalize allowed version number formats Proposal: Formalize the spec for version numbers as decimal or normalized dotted-integer (leading v and at least 3 components).  (Dagolden) Comments: * It's not clear

Re: CMSP 03. Deprecate YAML Tiny dialect for JSON

2009-10-31 Thread Barbie
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 09:38:45AM -0400, David Golden wrote: On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Ricardo Signes perl.cpanw...@rjbs.manxome.org wrote: * David Golden xda...@gmail.com [2009-10-09T07:42:35] 03. Deprecate YAML Tiny dialect for JSON Strongly agree. * I would like one

Re: CMSP 27. Long description

2009-10-31 Thread David Golden
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:54 AM, David Golden xda...@gmail.com wrote: 27. Long description Proposal: Field for long description that can be used in search, when generating README, OS packages or submitting dist to Ohloh, Freshmeat and similar sites. --Chorny 19:40, 21 September 2009 (BST)

Re: CMSP 03. Deprecate YAML Tiny dialect for JSON

2009-10-31 Thread David Golden
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Barbie bar...@missbarbell.co.uk wrote: I see 01, 02 and 03 all part of the same discussion really. There seems little point in discussing YAML if we think moving to JSON is the better option. I'm with the strongly agree camp on the first part of above :) (and

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 11. OS/arch/platform-specific requirements

2009-10-31 Thread Barbie
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:52:50AM -0400, David Golden wrote: On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:47 AM, David Golden xda...@gmail.com wrote: 11. OS/arch/platform-specific requirements Proposal: I would like to see a way to specify OS-specific requirements. One option might be to use

Re: CMSP 19. Make repository resource a hash

2009-10-31 Thread Barbie
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 03:45:31PM -0400, David Golden wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Barbie bar...@missbarbell.co.uk wrote: Agreed on both counts. type as proposed can be easily derived from the URLs from the examples. Is there a use case for its use? Both Subversion, and Git