Dale Long wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> > Perhaps LEAF can adopt the Debian classification system (free and
> > non-free, etc.) and classify packages that way?
>
> I would be interested in seeing an LRP package repositry, similar to say
> CPAN in format, with version information and so on. At the momment, it is
> a little chaotic.
>
> It would require cooperation on the part of the lrp submiters. There could
> be an 'other' directory for unclassified lrps. Maybe information in the
> lrp package information files could contain this (author, version) etc...
> and it would web automated. Or is this one step away from RPM and DEB? :-)
I suggested (earlier) that we use a <pkg>.desc file with tags. It could
contain all SORTS of things, and becomes extensible in a scary sort of
way. All sorts of descriptions could be in there:
* version
* full package name
* packager
* compiler
* date packaged
* home URL for package
* group ("Net/Diagnostics")
* copyright ("MIT/X" "BSD" "GPL" "Proprietary")
* OSI compatable copyright? (true/false...)
* one line description
* Minimalistic requires... (ie, error if these are missing, but don't
stop...)
A program could then scan all these packages, find all of the *.desc
files, then parse the tags and output some nice HTML. This can get
wild...
I'm excited by this possibility...
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