On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 12:46:13PM +0900, Simon Cozens wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 11:15:03PM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 12:35:39PM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: > > > While I'm thinking about it I thought I'd post the URL for the OSD spec. > > > > > > http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-OSD > > > > > > While reading it two things were in question; how will it fit into the > > > CPAN and how do we get people not only to use it but use it consistently. > > > It's food for thought anyway. > > > > People looking at OSD should probably also look at what metadata other > > packaging systems (rpm, deb, pkgadd, ...) define and use. > > While we're at it, I'll throw in Trove: > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/trove/ Trove is a database which requires the user to enter data via the web. In effect it is trying to be a general _source_ archive. This does not go far enough for what is needed for CPAN. We need to be able to know about binary distributions and connect them to the source distribution. What dependancies does each distribution have on any other perl modules. But most of all be as little work on the developer as possible. Graham.
