On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Nick Chalko wrote: > I'll start the discussion with what John Toohey said. > > In both html and xml format > > * list of available versions, > * their MD5's, > * dependencies, > * perhpas a > * code for licenses
Html format - I suppose you mean a easy-to-read page describing the package. Good idea. XML - please don't invent yet-another DTD and please don't duplicate what is already there. Our jars should include proper manifests, and if not - we should just use the same format as the standard manifest. The manifest defines the MD5, dependencies, version. There is also the Gump descriptor that includes a lot of info - so if an XML format is to be used, I think a subset ( or superset ) of this should be used, we already have collected dependency info for all the projects. Costin
