Re: Half-way Summary (Was: Re: Draft progression)

[Markus Stumpf <[e-mail]>]

Martijn Koster <[e-mail]> writes:

>I'd summarise agreed proposed changes to the current draft, and

Great idea, thanks!

>   - I vote for a companion RFC, to be published separately, not referenced
>     from within this draft.

A companion RFC is fine I think, but why not reference it?

>p2. Multiple records in Single Record files
>   - Removing the "single record" distinction is required in one case:
>     when two "packages" are described in separate files, and one/both of 
>     them have >1 related record (ie software, docs and mailing list devoted
>     to one software package).

I strongly vote for removing the "single record" restriction.
1) for the above reason and 2) for grouping e.g. source code, patches
and documentation for one package. About 2) I am still a bit unhappy.
If I have a  package-1.2.tar.gz  and a  package-1.1.to.1.2.diffs.gz
I have to create two templates for it (which best go into one index file)
cause I don't think it is okay to simply use
    Template-Type:	SOFTWARE
    Title:		A software package
    URI-v1:		ftp://ftp.some.host/package-1.2.tar.gz
    URI-v2:		ftp://ftp.some.host/package-1.1.to.1.2.diffs.gz

>   I don't see the point, Markus half likes it. It breaks existing index
>   files. Alan, what do you think?

Having slept one or two (short) nights about it, I think we should drop
the mailto: as we already call it *-Email: This IMHO implies the mailto: .

>p4. variant URI
>   - there is a problem here: Think about
>    [ ... ]

Hmmm ... do you think we should allow for more than one value to
URI-v1: e.g.?
I don't think this is a good idea ... it is unhandy, but if one wants
to have this, one has to duplicate the Format, Size and Language, too.
btw. do we also have Version: be a variant?

>p5. - Allowing HTML etc in descriptions
>   I'm against, for reasons explained before.

Agreed. I still think it would be nice, but then is someone likes
to include PostScript or MS Word format the templates will quick
become a pain and be unusable for most of us.

I'll have a look at the patch on Monday.
Have a nice weekend!

	\Maex
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