From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2002-01-05T21:49:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:30282] metadata about Ruby programs/libs (freeRIDE/gems)

Hi,

just glimpsed how others solved the metadata challenge related to 
software packages;
this might be an interesting idea for packaging software using gems or 
freeRIDE (or when generating gems with freeRIDE?).

http://rpmfind.net/linux/RDF/mandrake/SRPMS/ruby-gtk-0.23-2mdk.src.rdf
:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rdf:RDF xmlns:RDF="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-rdf-syntax#" 
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" 
xmlns:RPM="http://www.rpm.org/">
   <rdf:Description 
about="ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/SRPMS/ruby-gtk-0.23-2mdk.src.rpm">
     <RPM:Name>ruby-gtk</RPM:Name>
     <RPM:Version>0.23</RPM:Version>
     <RPM:Release>2mdk</RPM:Release>
[...]

Advantages seem to be:
   can be parsed etc. with XML tool kits
   can be processed/queried etc. with RDF tool kits

Tobi

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