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From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
To: andreas@enge.fr, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New importer for GNU packages
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 22:32:11 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201411212232.sALMWBOc018251@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141121100057.GA20832@debian.math.u-bordeaux1.fr>

    Is it sufficiently machine readable so that one could extract the
    information automatically?

There have been various efforts over many years to make the Directory
machine-readable, in its many implementations.  I do not know where they
stand today.

    Out of the ~303 packages in ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu, 

For the record, fp:/gd/gnuorg/maintainers.bypkg (and /maintainers)
ultimately defines what is and isn't a GNU "package".  There are
currently 382 GNU packages listed in that file (and nine special cases
and four lines of comments).

More accessibly, the gnupackages.txt in womb/gnumaint on savannah has
the same list, minus the special cases.

Of course, the contents of a "package" can vary tremendously, and not
all are installable software.  That's just how it has historically
turned out.

Best,
Karl

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-21 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-11 14:37 New importer for GNU packages Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-11 14:42 ` David Thompson
2014-11-11 16:42   ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-11 22:25     ` Karl Berry
2014-11-21 10:00       ` Andreas Enge
2014-11-21 22:32         ` Karl Berry [this message]
2014-11-21 22:55           ` Ludovic Courtès

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