[openbeos] Re: Haiku distro guidelines [was: Haiku VmwareBuild Environment]
- From: "Andrew McCall" <andrew.mccall@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:23:30 +0100
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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