On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Erik Huelsmann ehuels@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting thing to learn that they actually existed. Never knew and I actually thought about sending a request to the ASDF mailing list to that extent to mirror the metadata that's commonly included in Perl modules. With these fields, the already known "description" field and the dependencies list, it would be possible to start a nice metadata site like metacpan.org -- with the notable difference that we don't have a CPAN.org, so people would have to register their own packages. Kickstarting with quicklisp projects could be a nice seed for the site.
These are a relatively recent feature introduced in ASDF 3, as part of my attempt to get rid of component-property: plenty of systems each had their own, incompatible way of specifying these elements (plus a few sui generis elements that either had no place in the system object, or could be added using subclasses of system or a system-keyed hash-table).
Before starting yet another website about Lisp software, you might want to try collaborating with the existing cl-user.net and/or cliki maintainers. Or not.
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