Re: Scheme package management
Alex Shinn 26 Apr 2021 09:33 UTC
On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 6:02 PM Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io> wrote:
>
> > This is exactly what snow-fort defines:
> >
> > http://snow-fort.org/doc/spec/
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > It may not have everything you want but is a simple and extensible
> > format, and the site has been in active use since 2015.
>
> The Snow-Fort format is included in the survey at
> <https://github.com/pre-srfi/scheme-metadata-files>. Most existing
> Scheme package managers use a metadata format similar to it. They just
> use slightly different field names and syntax to encode similar information.
To my knowledge none of them has the most important aspect of Snow
which I mentioned, of being a file-structure agnostic format. That's not
just a matter of renaming fields.
--
Alex