On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Robert P. Goldman <rpgold...@sift.net> wrote: > If someone would suggest a list of keywords for the licenses, we could > certainly incorporate that in some fashion. But it would complicate any > introspection code. Presumably that code would be taking the metadata > and formatting it for the user. So it would now have to consider the > possibility of keywords, which should be translated, and probably lists > of keywords (per Fare's email), as well as strings. That would > complicate the work of anyone trying to make use of the code. > > Now, if there was something where someone might want to say: > > (find :gnu-gpl (mapcar #'asdf:component-license my-systems)) > > [actually, that wouldn't work because of the possibility > component-license is list valued] > > and do something with the results, then it might be worth making such an > effort. But I haven't seen any "pull" for such a feature in ASDF. > Whatever you, Xach or anyone comes up with, the processor can be published as a library asdf-metadata, at which point others don't have to reinvent it.
Of course, having a common implementation is no excuse for not having a good specification. On the other hand, it's ASDF we're talking about. Ahem. —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org It's better to know nothing that to know what ain't so. — Josh Billings
