On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 02:06:40PM -0500, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
My main concern is that we have been coming up with
'standard'
proposals for 20 years and we can't seem to get more than any 4
maintainers to agree to what that means... even if they do the same
work in Debian/SuSE/Arch etc. Too many idiosyncratic techniques which
they use to keep themselves sane or working in whatever environments
they have.
At this point, I will take whatever we can standardize on even if it
is clay tablets mailed to Babylon (ok maybe something a little less
archaic)
Likely we can get the GNU project involved here.
A simple "METADATA" file in the top level of each project
containing the information we need in a format to be decided.
If you think about it, we cannot even get the *name or version* of a
project mechanically at the moment, which is incredible really.
Rich.
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