[doap-interest] DOAP, YAML, RubyGems, etc.

[Hannes Magnusson]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 14:28, Edd Dumbill<edd at usefulinc.com> wrote:
> On 30 Jul 2009, at 02:04, Rich Morin wrote:
>
>> For starters, I'm a bit surprised not to see any dependency
>> information in DOAP.  RubyGems has a pretty extensive system
>> for talking about which other Gems (in which versions) are
>> needed.  Is this simply beyond the DOAP charter?
>
> No, just not done yet. I was always planning to use the Debian
> dependency model as a starting point, being well established and
> covering binary and source dependencies separately.

I'd be very interested in following that progress.

I have been dreaming about bailing on the current package.xml format
for PEAR and take up DOAP, using the existing package.xml dependency
model (since DOAP doesn't have any).
If however something like that is in the works...

-Hannes