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A minimal specification for purl aka. a package "mostly universal" URL, join the discussion at https://gitter.im/package-url/Lobby
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Proposal: Add homepage_url #339

Open pombredanne opened 2 weeks ago

pombredanne commented 2 weeks ago

This is follow up from the stale, unmerged PR at:

Here is the original description from @david-a-wheeler

Many software packages do not have a publicly-accessible version control system (VCS) nor a public download page. If package-URL is to be able to identify arbitrary packages it must be able to handle these cases. In addition, just having the VCS information is sometimes not enough to learn more about the software.

This proposal adds homepage_url to generic. This makes it possible to refer to these (many) programs, along with their version numbers. The homepage URL is also really helpful to users, who may want to know more about the program and the other information may not be enough to help.

The CII Best Practices badge has had great success using homepage URL and VCS URL as a unique project identifier, even for projects which aren't under the control of a language-level packaging system.