The new metadata is freeform, so you're welcome to stake a claim to a key and put your tag data there. In which case, you'd then need a tool that can read the tags. That could just be a rubygems plugin. If it takes off, we can discuss rolling the functionality directly into rubygems itself.
This is the path that gemcutter's functionality took and it worked quite well. - Evan -- Evan Phoenix // e...@phx.io On Sunday, March 4, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Rich Morin wrote: > PBI: add a tags field to the RubyGems metadata > > This Partly-Baked Idea has the goal of making it easier for > folks to find gems, whether by looking over a list of tags > or by looking for gems with similar sets of tags. > > Dunno if this has been discussed before. If so, a pointer > to the thread would be appreciated. Otherwise, I'd like a > bit of feedback on the idea. > > -r > > -- > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume r...@cfcl.com (mailto:r...@cfcl.com) > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 > > Software system design, development, and documentation > > > _______________________________________________ > RubyGems-Developers mailing list > http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems > RubyGems-Developers@rubyforge.org (mailto:RubyGems-Developers@rubyforge.org) > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers > > _______________________________________________ RubyGems-Developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems RubyGems-Developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
