[doap-interest] doap:file-release and cross-platform software

[Olivier Dameron]

Quoting Edd Dumbill <edd at usefulinc.com>:

> On 18 Aug 2006, at 12:16, karsten schmidt wrote:
>
>> How can express that there're multiple file releases for each version,
>> point to the binary files and specify the target OS for each file? Is
>> this at all possible with DOAP?
>
> Right now, this isn't very well specced out in DOAP. Specifying
> multiple releases for each version is simply a matter of repeating the
> file-release property. To indicate OS we would need to make a new class.
>
> Here's a quick sketch of how this might work, but please note this
> isn't in any way conclusive. Suggestions very welcome on how we might
> model this.
>
>  <doap:file-release>
>    <doap:FileRelease rdf:about="http://path/to/whatever.zip">
>       <doap:os>Windows</doap:os>
>    </doap:FileRelease>
> </doap:file-release>

For similar purpose, I devised an extension to doap. An example for  
the Protege software is available at:
http://protege.stanford.edu/doap/doap.rdf

I would be glad to get feedback on that as well :-)
Olivier