[Squeakfoundation]FreePAN: an opportunity to share repositories!
Brian Ingerson
squeakfoundation@lists.squeakfoundation.org
Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:39:51 -0800
On 19/12/02 09:50 -0800, Ned Konz wrote:
> On Thursday 19 December 2002 05:43 am, goran.hultgren@bluefish.se
> wrote:
> > - The protocol between servers and clients is dead simple on top of
> > http. I like to keep things as small as necessary - no need for
> > SOAP or XML. I just use very simple commands in http requests and
> > use Squeak as "language" for transmitting structures.
>
> That is, what's going over the net looks like this (example is for a
> category):
>
> (self newCategoryWithId: 'aaac9f7d-6d46-471d-96aa-522dc546cbee')
> created: 3206703930
> updated:3206703930
> name: 'Class libraries'
> summary: 'Class libraries for Squeak to use for development'
> url: ''
> mandatory: false
> parentId: nil!
>
> Note that this could easily be represented in YAML...
And it might look like this:
--- !newCategoryWithId
=: aaac9f7d-6d46-471d-96aa-522dc546cbee
created: 3206703930
updated: 3206703930
name: Class libraries
summary: Class libraries for Squeak to use for development
url: ''
mandatory: false
parentId:
BTW, Here's an example of the YAML meta data for a random FreePAN
module:
dist_id: rskkserv
version: 2.94.12
language: ruby
description: |-
rskkserv is an alternate version of skkserv implemented by Ruby.
Please use ruby-tcpwrap library for security.
Now, supports multi skkdic and epwing dictionaries(*1).
*1: Needs ruby-eb library for epwing dictionary.
categories:
- Application/Util
license: GPL
owner_id: YamashitaJunji
update: 2001-08-15 01:11:52.000000 Z
wrapped_content: rskkserv-2.94.12/
This file is at
http://freepan.org/ruby/by-owner/YamashitaJunji/rskkserv/index.yml
Cheers, Brian