From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) Subject: Re: New importer for GNU packages Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 22:32:11 GMT Message-ID: <201411212232.sALMWBOc018251@freefriends.org> References: <20141121100057.GA20832@debian.math.u-bordeaux1.fr> Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44833) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrwkW-0008Q5-Ah for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:32:25 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrwkR-0007Ih-Ej for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:32:20 -0500 Received: from frenzy.freefriends.org ([66.54.153.139]:56935 helo=freefriends.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrwkR-0007IJ-9G for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:32:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20141121100057.GA20832@debian.math.u-bordeaux1.fr> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: andreas@enge.fr, guix-devel@gnu.org 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