Linux Software Map

#1

Post by naetius » Thu, May 18, 2023, 7:04 PM UTC

Re: Linux Software Map

#2

Post by teddyh » Thu, May 18, 2023, 8:57 PM UTC

There seems to be a bug; the “Description” field seems to have joined lines together without spaces, leading to such things as “It is conformantto” in the description of Bigloo.

Re: Linux Software Map

#3

Post by ktm5j » Thu, May 18, 2023, 9:26 PM UTC

teddyh wrote: post #2

There seems to be a bug; the “Description” field seems to have joined lines together without spaces, leading to such things as “It is conformantto” in the description of Bigloo.

Since this isn't the original source of this data, it's possible that this happened to the description contents at some point in the past. In which case it wouldn't be trivial to fix.

Re: Linux Software Map

#4

Post by viraptor » Thu, May 18, 2023, 10:50 PM UTC

I guess the modern equivalent of that would be https://repology.org/

Although the focus is on the version aspect, so descriptions are a bit hidden and I'm not sure they're searchable.

Re: Linux Software Map

#5

Post by 7373737373 » Thu, May 18, 2023, 10:57 PM UTC

viraptor wrote: post #4

I guess the modern equivalent of that would be https://repology.org/ Although the focus is on the version aspect, so descriptions are a bit hidden and I'm not sure they're searchable.

Would be cool to have a https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit/ of that

Re: Linux Software Map

#6

Post by 1letterunixname » Thu, May 18, 2023, 11:01 PM UTC

viraptor wrote: post #4

I guess the modern equivalent of that would be https://repology.org/ Although the focus is on the version aspect, so descriptions are a bit hidden and I'm not sure they're searchable.

Also https://www.openhub.net/

RIP freshmeat

Re: Linux Software Map

#7

Post by hulitu » Fri, May 19, 2023, 8:56 AM UTC

There was also Scientific Applications on Linux http://www.sai.msu.su/sal/

Re: Linux Software Map

#8

Post by lakerkolya2 » Fri, May 19, 2023, 1:11 PM UTC

hulitu wrote: post #7

There was also Scientific Applications on Linux http://www.sai.msu.su/sal/

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Re: Linux Software Map

#9

Post by thomasadam » Fri, May 19, 2023, 1:37 PM UTC

ktm5j wrote: post #3

teddyh wrote: post #2

There seems to be a bug; the “Description” field seems to have joined lines together without spaces, leading to such things as “It is conformantto” in the description of Bigloo.

Since this isn't the original source of this data, it's possible that this happened to the description contents at some point in the past. In which case it wouldn't be trivial to fix.

Correct. I've done no manipulation of the data that has been read in.

Re: Linux Software Map

#10

Post by teddyh » Fri, May 19, 2023, 7:08 PM UTC

ktm5j wrote: post #3

teddyh wrote: post #2

There seems to be a bug; the “Description” field seems to have joined lines together without spaces, leading to such things as “It is conformantto” in the description of Bigloo.

Since this isn't the original source of this data, it's possible that this happened to the description contents at some point in the past. In which case it wouldn't be trivial to fix.

The bug is not in the source data:

  Begin4
  Title:          "Bigloo, a Scheme to C compiler"
  Version:        1.3
  Entered-date:   1996-01-01
  Description:    Bigloo is both a interpreter and a compiler. It is conformant
                  to IEEE Scheme standard with some extensions from which we can
                  site regular parsing or pattern matching.
  Primary-site:   ftp.inria.fr /INRIA/Projects/icsla
                  4048000 bigloo1.3b.tar.Z
  Author:         Manuel.Serrano@inria.fr (Manuel Serrano)
  Maintained-by:  Manuel.Serrano@inria.fr
  Copying-policy: Copyleft
  End