On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 20:36 -0600, Eduardo Cavazos wrote: > But information like author, a one line summary, a detailed description, > etc. are not stored in a standard way. > > Here's one method I experimented with... A library form has the > structure: > > (library NAME EXPORT-FORM IMPORT-FORM ...) > > After the IMPORT-FORM I have an alist: > > '((author . "Billy Meier") > (summary . "Pleiadean communications protocol") > (description . "... long description goes here") > (license . ...) > (project-page . ...) > (repository . "git://...")) > > If we included such information in our libraries, it would be > straighforward to have a generated list of the communities libraries. > Also, it would be of use for library browsing utilities intended for use > on the local workstation. > > A quoted alist after IMPORT-FORM is harmless.
Actually, it's illegal, if there are definitions after it, because expressions cannot precede definitions in a library body. -- : Derick ----------------------------------------------------------------
