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authorBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2019-06-03 14:41:42 +0200
committerBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2019-06-03 14:41:42 +0200
commitb8746737629da7adcb9249962c642eceeb3a832f (patch)
tree61153cc424d5708262fb12e049ac510d50cb39be /doc
parent2b13fce423c8def90a3e0873c3ab8dbd86c97264 (diff)
Replace tags with keywords, add topics package manifest values in manual
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/manual.cli39
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual.cli b/doc/manual.cli
index 8bedcb1..7f0f3f9 100644
--- a/doc/manual.cli
+++ b/doc/manual.cli
@@ -526,7 +526,8 @@ license: <licenses> [; <comment>]
\
\
-[tags]: <tags>
+[topics]: <topics>
+[keywords]: <keywords>
[description]: <text>
[description-file]: <path> [; <comment>]
[description-type]: <text-type>
@@ -684,29 +685,35 @@ Note that just \c{BSD} is ambiguous and should be avoided.
\N|An example of automated processing would be filtering for non-copyleft
licensed packages.|
-\h2#manifest-package-tags|\c{tags}|
+\h2#manifest-package-topics|\c{topics}|
+
+\
+[topics]: <topics>
+
+<topics> = <topic> [, <topic>]*
\
-[tags]: <tags>
-<tags> = <tag> [, <tag>]*
+The package topics (optional). The format is a comma-separated list of up to
+five potentially multi-word concepts that describe this package. For example:
+
\
+topics: xml parser, xml serializer
+\
+
-The package tags (optional). The format is a comma-separated list of words
-that describe this package.
+\h2#manifest-package-keywords|\c{keywords}|
-\N|Originally, support for multi-word tags were considered, however this
-quickly degenerated into quite a complex functionality. In particular, in such
-a case we should probably treat multi-word tags as if the single word as well
-as shorter, multi-word derivations were also mentioned. That is, \"xml pull
-parser\" should be equivalent to \"xml pull parser, xml pull, xml parser,
-pull parser, xml, pull, parser\".
+\
+[keywords]: <keywords>
-On the user side, if exact phrase matches are favored, then this serves as an
-encouragement to come up with ever more elaborate multi-word tags to \"cover\"
-as much ground as possible. For example, \"streaming c++ xml pull parser\".
+<keywords> = <keyword> [ <keyword>]*
+\
-As a result, we will start simple and only allow single-word tags.|
+The package keywords (optional). The format is a space-separated list of up to
+five words that describe this package. Note that the package and project names
+as well as words from its summary are already considered to be keywords and
+need not be repeated in this value.
\h2#manifest-package-description|\c{description}|