On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Jon Dowland wrote: > Ben Finney wrote: >> That is, so that the information can be extracted automatically and >> presented by a program in various contexts, rather than having the >> *only* way to get at the information be to read the debian/copyright >> file in its entirety. >> > If machine-parsing the copyright file is desired, I suggest someone draft > up some kind of control-field format or similar to aid parsing. Attempting > to machine-extract useful info consistently from copyright files across the > archive at the moment is surely going to be a very error prone task.
Like say, http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat ? Don Armstrong -- There is no such thing as "social gambling." Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it--or you're a sucker. If you don't like this choice--don't gamble. -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p250 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
