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== Relation to Appcasts == | == Relation to Appcasts == | ||
Appcasts (see [[appcast-brainstorming]]) provide a list of downloads, as well as release notes. | Appcasts (see [[appcast-brainstorming]]) provide a list of downloads, as well as release notes. An appcast microformat should probably make use of a downloads microformat which adds extra metadata to downloads, such as versions, OS, architecture, MD5/SHA1 checksums, DSA signatures, and so on. | ||
:Better to merge these ideas and have one microformat, perhaps using hAtom for the "cast" part. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] | |||
== See Also == | == See Also == | ||
Revision as of 11:57, 1 August 2007
Purpose
Many sites (Download.com, Tucows, SourceForge, etc.) provide software downloads, some shareware, some freeware, some open-source. To create a search index or similar across these sites would be difficult, as there is no standard markup.
Many other sites index such downloads, selectively, without providing them directly, for example PricelessWare.=
Relation to Appcasts
Appcasts (see appcast-brainstorming) provide a list of downloads, as well as release notes. An appcast microformat should probably make use of a downloads microformat which adds extra metadata to downloads, such as versions, OS, architecture, MD5/SHA1 checksums, DSA signatures, and so on.
- Better to merge these ideas and have one microformat, perhaps using hAtom for the "cast" part. Andy Mabbett
See Also
- rel-license (rel=copyright for copyright license? rel=license whatiscopyright.org?)
- hash-examples
- appcast-brainstorming and appcast-examples
- DOAP and hDOAP
- Google Code Search (not a downloads search, but similar)