On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Erik Huelsmann <ehu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting thing to learn that they actually existed. Never knew and I > actually thought about sending a request to the ASDF mailing list to that > extent to mirror the metadata that's commonly included in Perl modules. With > these fields, the already known "description" field and the dependencies > list, it would be possible to start a nice metadata site like metacpan.org > -- with the notable difference that we don't have a CPAN.org, so people > would have to register their own packages. Kickstarting with quicklisp > projects could be a nice seed for the site. > These are a relatively recent feature introduced in ASDF 3, as part of my attempt to get rid of component-property: plenty of systems each had their own, incompatible way of specifying these elements (plus a few sui generis elements that either had no place in the system object, or could be added using subclasses of system or a system-keyed hash-table).
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