On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 09:57:39AM +0200, Peter Rockai wrote: > There are some things bothering me about current vocabulary. One of them is > the devel::lang: and made-of:: stuff. The made-of::<language> should probably > go away for all turing-complete programming languages and be replaced with > made-of::source-code. devel::lang: should be just ripped out. To specify > language, a new facet could be created, like language:: (description > Programming Language?). > > The cases where a package contains source code in language A but is primarily > useful with language B can be handled by tagging with both language::A and > language::B. The idea is that if it's written in A, it can be useful for A > coders anyway -- studying code, reusing, etc... > > So the language:: facet would go like "useful for coders in a given language".
I disagree. The tagging scheme you are proposing seems to be less informative that the current one. You indeed loose the ability of distinguishing whether a given package is implemented in a given language or meant to be useful for a given language. It seems like a useful distinction to me. The information you're trying to obtain, namely "useful for coders in a given language", is indeed relevant, but it seems a derived information to me. It seems to be derivable from the following two implication: IF made-of::<language> THEN language::<language> IF devel::lang:<language> THEN language::<language> I really think we need support for this kind of stuff above debtags, not directly at the tagging level. /me mumbling about debtags-based ontologies ... 0.02 EUR from a lurker. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. -!-
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