Le vendredi 20 mars 2009 à 17:44 +0100, Vincent Untz a écrit : > Le vendredi 20 mars 2009, à 11:27 -0500, Shaun McCance a écrit : > > I wonder if we could define some sort of non-RDF project > > info file format that people actually wouldn't mind using. > > Something flexible and well-defined enough to provide more > > information that could be picked up by Pulse, but still > > plain-text enough that humans would write and read it. > > We certainly could. Something like: > > [Project] > name=gnome-panel > short-descr=The GNOME Panel > short-descr[fr]=Tableau de bord GNOME > long-descr=blablabla\nSecond line > long-descr[fr]=blablabla\nDeuxième ligne > licenses=GPLv2+;LGPLv2.1+; > maintainers=markmc;vuntz; > branches=gnome-2-24;gnome-2-26; > last-stable-version=2.26.0 > last-devel-version=2.25.92 > > [Maintainer vuntz] > name=Vincent Untz > [email protected] > > [Maintainer markmc] > ... > > [Branch gnome-2-24] > git-branch=gnome-2-24 > last-version=2.24.3 > all-versions=2.24.0;2.24.1;2.24.2;2.24.3; > > [Version 2.26.0] > date=2009-03-16 > url=http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-panel/2.26/gnome-panel-2.26.0.tar.bz2 > md5sum=... > filesize=... > > ... > > And it's certainly not hard to write a script do convert this to DOAP if > we want. > > Now, does it make sense to have such a format? I don't know :-)
Why always reinvent the wheel :-( Despite his verbosity, DOAP is standard, there are tools to parse it, it can be used by other GNOME infrastructure apps, etc. Is it such a big deal for programmers to read/produce XML syntax? Claude _______________________________________________ gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
