On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 07:23:56PM -0500, Samuel Bronson wrote: > I'm proposing a few things for addition to the debtags vocabulary: > > * devel::lang:erlang and implemented-in::erlang, for Erlang stuff > > * devel::lang:vhdl, for VHDL tools > > * devel::lang:verilog, for Verilog tools > > * devel::lang:TODO, for development tools for languages that do not yet > have their own "devel::lang:" tag. > > * works-with-format::diff, for tools that work with diff-format > patches. (Now if only we could apply debtags to commands and > subcommands within a package, then we could tag stuff like "git diff" > and "git am"...) > > I have a debtags patch to justify all but the Erlang tags and > devel::lang:TODO; there are LOT of erlang-related packages, and TODO > tags are rather meta.
devel::lang:TODO is definitely a good idea. It's rather meta indeed: I reckon it makes sense to justify it by its need/use case, rather than by the number of packages. I've added devel::lang:TODO, devel::lang:erlang, implemented-in::erlang and works-with-format::diff; those seem very much uncontroversial to me. I've also sent your works-with-format::diff to the site after making sure the site loaded the new version of the vocabulary. I'm a bit less sure about Verilog and VHDL: I am not an electronics expert; if I understand correctly that they are languages used to design electronics rather than to write software, perhaps we are better served by field::electronics (which exists) and perhaps new tags works-with-format::verilog and works-with-format::vhdl? The rationale for that is that the "devel::*" facet is specifically for Software Development. OTOH I see such things as "verilog compilers". OTOH there are such things as povray and csound, which compile languages into something that isn't software. As I said, I don't know much about the field: I feel like I should raise the issue, and I'm happy to stand corrected. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enr...@enricozini.org>
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