On 30 October 2010 23:10, Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com> wrote:
Daniel James wrote:
The way that we deal with this kind of shared data is pretty bad, it's duplicated in several places (the maintainers list, lib/libraries.htm, the website, Trac) which requires a lot of maintenance that often goes undone. It shouldn't be too hard to generate most of that from a single information source, maybe some sort of metadata file in the library directory?
Maybe. For example, it's always possible to make Jamfile present for all libraries, right at libs/somelib, and report some metatadata.
I'm not sure what you mean. I'm referring to things like the library name, a short description, categories, library authors, current maintainers, documentation location. I wouldn't have thought that was the kind of thing a build system would be concerned with. Daniel