On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 05:16:47PM +0000, Steve Harris wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:05:35 -0500, Paul Winkler wrote: > > It would be nice to provide app authors or packagers with a trivial way > > to update the page when they release packages. > > A lot of the information we want (release date, > > version, dependencies...) is already in RPM spec files, > > debian control files, and gentoo ebuild files - we should leverage > > that work. > > Good plan, you could also hook into the sourceforge anouncements system - > subscribing to RSS feeds ro whatever.
I'll add that to the features list... my thinking-out-loud was off: we should try to query the information directly from the distro servers (planet et al.) rather than from a particular installation. Also we should look into stuff like this: http://freshmeat.net/projects/trovesendtwo/?topic_id=66%2C45%2C52%2C1081 it's supposed to help with simultaneously submitting project info to freshmeat, savannah, and "similar". -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's SUPREME ULTIMATE BUTTERY SEISURE LORD! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com)
