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Re: pkg.m status and question


From: Mike Miller
Subject: Re: pkg.m status and question
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 19:29:49 -0800

On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 23:34:06 +0100, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
> Int he direction of making pkg handling better, we should have a
> uniform structure for the DESC file with all possible fields, any DESC
> file that does not fill one leaves the default value of NA.

I humbly suggest that the package description struct should have some
number of required fields, but any number of user-defined optional
fields that can be added to the package as needed. There is no way to
define all possible fields. That's the way it works now, please don't
make it more restrictive.

-- 
mike

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