and yet its all pretty much scattered, free-form, non-extensible, no locale,
etc. (thought the freshmeat site seems among the better organized right now)

a simple example for a simple app yields:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/wget
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freshmeat_wget/
http://directory.fsf.org/project/wget/
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html

They all seem somewhat tied together, but it'll make for an ugly parser to
track such an unstable interface.

Dont know... seems like the community in general could use an "appdb" type
of service where app-creators can register their app details, and management
frameworks could simply tie in to grab logos, app details, etc. etc.
(something properly OPEN that might look like some sort of community
maintained, multi-lingual version of cddb). perhaps it could ride ontop
wikipedia, not clear.

me thinks I might well be in over my head on this one :-(

 -- MikeE



On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Alan Coopersmith
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Michael Ellis wrote:
> >  I'm actually surprised there isn't already some sort of "general
> > Application Inventory" type of service somewhere on the net. Something
> along
> > the lines of: "*CDDB*
>
> For open source projects, that's basically what freshmeat.net is.
>
> --
>        -Alan Coopersmith-           [email protected]
>         Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
>
>
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