[openbeos] Re: Haiku distro guidelines [was: Haiku VmwareBuild Environment]

On 17/04/2008, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
>  welcome. I was thinking of a format like this:
>
>  Package:                FooBar
>  Version:                7.3
>  Copyright:              1973 - 2007, John Foo, Muesli Bar
>  Description:    The incredible FooBar package, always handy for examples --
>                                 even multiline examples, which AboutSystem 
> should format
>                                 properly.
>  License:                GNU GPL v2
>  URL:                    http://foobar.example.com
>
>  The license name would refer to an equally named file in /etc/licenses/. To
>  avoid conflicts, the name of the file in a optional package should be
>  ".OptionalPackageDescription", added to the zip file without path name.
>
>  Unless there are objections or someone else wants to do that, I'll prepare
>  the build system and AboutSystem to eat those files later today or maybe
>  tomorrow.

Just to throw the idea out there - could there a "Haiku-way" of doing
this?  For example, putting all the information in tracker attributes.
 Users could say search for all GPL binaries on the system...


-- 
Thanks,

Andrew McCall
andrew.mccall@xxxxxxxxx

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