On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 12:04 +0100, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > > <Project xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"; > > xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"; > > xmlns="http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#";> > > [...] > > What are the real benefits of DOAP (sounds like "dope," nice)? If it's > meant for machines to query against then a database would be more > useful.
this would be a database. DOAP is a just a human/machine readable storage for data, which gets parsed and used as the source for generating other stuff, like project pages and checks like Olav proposed. > > if I'd say something about DOAP is that sometimes is overly verbose; but > > it's quite descriptive and easy to parse/write, even by humans. most of > > this data is not even meant to be changed often: the only sections that > > changes regularly is the releases one - and that would be automagically > > updated by the install-module script if I understood Olav's mail > > correctly. > > Again, what is the use case for DOAP inside GNOME? have you read the email Olav sent? ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi, W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.net B: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
