Re: CMSP 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field

2009-10-31 Thread Barbie
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 08:19:29AM -0400, Ricardo Signes wrote: > * David Golden [2009-10-09T07:47:00] > > 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field > > Strongly oppose. The META file is meant to tell machines about dists. This > will not be useful. Agreed. This kind of information should be in t

Re: CMSP 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field

2009-10-10 Thread Zefram
David Golden wrote: >Add free-text entries that *describe* prerequisites that cannot be >described right now, No thanks. Let's work on ways to machine-readably describe more kinds of prerequisite. C library dependencies are currently a pain to deal with, but their names are reasonably invariant,

Re: CMSP 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field

2009-10-09 Thread Randy Kobes
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Graham Barr wrote: > On Oct 9, 2009, at 6:47 AM, David Golden wrote: > >> 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field >> >> Proposal: >> >> Add free-text entries that *describe* prerequisites that cannot be >> described right now, like "prerequisite: a working libexpat"

Re: CMSP 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field

2009-10-09 Thread Ruslan Zakirov
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Ricardo Signes wrote: > * David Golden [2009-10-09T07:47:00] >> 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field > > Strongly oppose.  The META file is meant to tell machines about dists.  This > will not be useful. Partly disagree. META is for machines to easily extract da

Re: CMSP 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field

2009-10-09 Thread David Golden
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Steffen Mueller wrote: >> Putting human-readable stuff in a file intended primarily for >> machine-readability seems of minimal use to me. > > I'm in two minds about this. Such a free form field may be useful if you > consider that human-readable information may be

Re: CMSP 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field

2009-10-09 Thread Steffen Mueller
Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote: Excerpts from David Golden's message of Fri Oct 09 07:47:00 -0400 2009: 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field Proposal: Add free-text entries that *describe* prerequisites that cannot be described right now, like "prerequisite: a working libexpat", "Need a perl with

Re: CMSP 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field

2009-10-09 Thread Graham Barr
On Oct 9, 2009, at 6:47 AM, David Golden wrote: 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field Proposal: Add free-text entries that *describe* prerequisites that cannot be described right now, like "prerequisite: a working libexpat", "Need a perl with defined-or", "Need root access to /media/test".

Re: CMSP 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field

2009-10-09 Thread Hans Dieter Pearcey
Excerpts from David Golden's message of Fri Oct 09 07:47:00 -0400 2009: > 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field > > Proposal: > > Add free-text entries that *describe* prerequisites that cannot be > described right now, like "prerequisite: a working libexpat", "Need a perl > with defined-or", "N

Re: CMSP 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field

2009-10-09 Thread Ricardo Signes
* David Golden [2009-10-09T07:47:00] > 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field Strongly oppose. The META file is meant to tell machines about dists. This will not be useful. -- rjbs

CMSP 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field

2009-10-09 Thread David Golden
10. Add a free-text prerequisite field Proposal: Add free-text entries that *describe* prerequisites that cannot be described right now, like "prerequisite: a working libexpat", "Need a perl with defined-or", "Need root access to /media/test". (Tux) Comments: * This form of prerequisite assumes