[Distutils] Outdated packages on pypi

[Wes Turner]

If you have an alternate way to represent a graph with JSON, which is
indexable as as RDF named graph quads and cryptographically signable
irrespective of data ordering or representation format  (RDFa, JSONLD) with
ld-signatures,
I'd be interested to hear how said format solves for that problem.

These contain checksums.

https://web-payments.org/specs/source/ld-signatures/

RDFa (with http://schema.org/SoftwareApplication and pypa:-specific classes
and properties (types and attributes) for things like SupersededBy)) would
be advantageous because, then, public and local RDF(a) search engines could
easily assist with structured data search.

Adding data-request-pythonver *is* a stopgap solution which, initially,
seems less bandwidth-burdensome; but requires all downstream data consumers
to re-implement and ad-hoc parser;
which is unnecessary if it's already understood that a graph description
semantics which works in JSON (as JSONLD) and HTML has already solved that
problem many times over.

On Jul 17, 2016 9:06 AM, "Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 16 July 2016 at 23:47, Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So, there could be RDFa in the project detail pages and a JSONLD
> key/dict in
> > the project metadata indicating this community-reviewed edge or edges.
>
> Wes, once again, please stop attempting to inject JSON-LD into every
> metadata discussion we have on this list. We already know you like it.
>
> However, despite being simpler than RDFa, JSON-LD is still
> overengineered for our purposes, so we're not going to ask people to
> go read the JSON-LD spec in order to understand any particular aspect
> of our APIs or metadata formats.
>
> If you'd like to set up a PyPI dataset in one of the semantic web
> projects, then please feel free to do so, but adding that kind of
> information to the upstream metadata isn't a priority, any more than
> it's a priority to add native support for things like CPE [1] or SWID
> [2].
>
> Regards,
> Nick.
>
> [1] https://scap.nist.gov/specifications/cpe/
> [2] http://tagvault.org/swid-tags/what-are-swid-tags/
>
> --
> Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
>
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