Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Software Projects Description

2006-10-11 Thread Ryan King
On Oct 9, 2006, at 7:06 PM, Karl Dubost wrote: Le 06-10-10 à 10:19, Lachlan Hunt a écrit : Torrents are useful in this respect, because the hash checks are done as part of the process without any effort from the user. You just gave the answers where some metadata should stay hidden. I

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Software Projects Description

2006-10-09 Thread Karl Dubost
Le 06-10-07 à 00:42, Lachlan Hunt a écrit : Karl Dubost wrote: Le 5 oct. 06 à 10:08, Stephen Paul Weber a écrit : Software Downloads (license, download link, title, description, rating?) Might actually start some research and suggest this soon. Already done. It's called DOAP

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Software Projects Description

2006-10-09 Thread Colin Barrett
On Oct 9, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Karl Dubost wrote: - How many common public softwares (downloadable from a Web page) do MD5 or SHA? I can go dig up some URLs and post them on the wiki, if need be (although I think some of the obvious ones like SourceForge are already on there and do provide

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Software Projects Description

2006-10-09 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Karl Dubost wrote: Le 06-10-07 à 00:42, Lachlan Hunt a écrit : MD5 sums are provided for downloads like Apache and PHP. It would be useful so that the browser could take care of checking the file when it finishes downloading. Presently, it requires too much manual effort for an average user

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Software Projects Description

2006-10-09 Thread Karl Dubost
Le 06-10-10 à 10:19, Lachlan Hunt a écrit : Torrents are useful in this respect, because the hash checks are done as part of the process without any effort from the user. You just gave the answers where some metadata should stay hidden. I thought microformats effort was about to make

[uf-discuss] Re: Software Projects Description

2006-10-06 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Karl Dubost wrote: Le 5 oct. 06 à 10:08, Stephen Paul Weber a écrit : Software Downloads (license, download link, title, description, rating?) Might actually start some research and suggest this soon. Already done. It's called DOAP http://usefulinc.com/doap One thing that would actually be

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Software Projects Description

2006-10-06 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
On 10/6/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing that would actually be very useful for users on a download page is a way to markup a check sum (commonly MD5 or SHA) and semantically associate it with the file to be downloaded. I couldn't find anything like that covered with DOAP.