Re: Format of S-expression metadata for SRFI documents
Ciprian Dorin Craciun 13 Mar 2019 18:59 UTC
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 6:54 PM Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io> wrote:
> wouldn't worry about a formal release or publication of these. We could
> make one experimental repo with the new S-expression files. I could
> update the <http://schemedoc.herokuapp.com/> API to use them and Arthur
> could make versions of his personal scripts related to running the SRFI
> process and website. Once the S-expression format is reasonably stable
> so we can use it ourselves, we could push those files into the official
> repo of each SRFI.
You could do that. I was just saying that I don't feel we have
explored enough the solution space...
But then again, having some tools would be wonderful. (But I would
say to be prepared to scrape or rewrite them.)
> > Therefore the "devil is in the details"... Just saying that "a place
> > would be held in the format" is not enough, as these SRFI's
> > cross-reference each-other.
>
> It would be great to have consistent types across all the SRFIs but it
> sounds like that would take a lot more time to get correct than the rest
> of the things we intend to do. Therefore I would suggest a formal
> announcement just for the HTML structure. The types could remain in
> continuous development as long as needed, and live in their own
> S-expression files which continue to be updated as progress is made.
I'm OK to focus on "announcing" just the HTML-related stuff. However
although we don't "announce" also the other meta-data, I do think we
should have a pretty good idea (i.e. working tools and experimental
sites) how the two inter-link together...
Ciprian.