From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2021 11:32:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87im8jb6uq.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> <87h7o29p12.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> <6193374b-a60d-ba82-91b5-afdede18e3bb@yandex.ru> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9471"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 04 17:33:48 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kwSnk-0002Mn-5N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:33:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60530 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwSnj-0002Ld-8T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2021 11:33:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45934) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwSmD-00016h-B2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2021 11:32:14 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37900) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwSmA-0003kR-Ml; Mon, 04 Jan 2021 11:32:12 -0500 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kwSm6-0000gk-Oh; Mon, 04 Jan 2021 11:32:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Ulrich Mueller on Mon, 04 Jan 2021 16:00:03 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:262443 Archived-At: > Since this web site does almost the same job as the Free Software > Directory, why not interface against that instead? That lists > exclusivley packages that have been confirmed to be free software. These are completely different services. The FSD is a catalogue of free software with human readable descriptions (and IIUC, entries are maintained by humans). Whereas Repology provides lists of packages and their versions, with the info being obtained from various repositories in an automated way. That is a difference in how they are implemented, now in their purpose, no? FSD lists the version of packages. ;; The results of a query revolve around three types of objects: ;; projects, packages and problems. Using this library, you can find ;; projects matching certain criteria, packages in a given project, >From the above I don't see how they are "completely" different, it seems one could do the same but using the FSD -- the only thing missing might be "bug" reports.