[Introspector-developers] Fwd: Re: Proposal for an Worldwide Data Introspector XML/RDF API layer for software.

[James M. D. <mdu...@ya...>]

--- Sergey Melnik <me...@db...> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 17:00:59 +0200
> From: Sergey Melnik <me...@db...>
> To: James Michael DuPont <mdu...@ya...>
> CC: Dan...@br..., www...@w3...
> Subject: Re: Proposal for an Worldwide Data Introspector XML/RDF API
> layer for software.
> 
> Mike,
> 
> thank you for drawing our attention to your project. Indeed, metadata
> 
> management poses one of the major challenges for the state-of-the-art
> 
> software engineering. I'm confident that using a right mix of UML,
> RDF 
> and XML could be beneficial for the kind of tools and scenarios that
> you 
> describe.
> 
> I'm looking forward to hearing about your progress.
> 
> Best,
> Sergey
> 
> 
> James Michael DuPont wrote:
> 
> > Dear All,
> > 
> > My name is James Michael DuPont, and am new to the RDF list.
> > I have been working on my free time in the past two years on XML
> > interfaces into Free software.
> > 
> > I have noticed your interesting discussion of UML,XMI and RDF.
> > That is why I am writing to you all in a call for discussion about
> the
> > future of SoftwareMetadata exchange in the new millennium. 
> > Currently I am working on XML interfaces into GCC, BISON and Perl
> with
> > the goal of creating a standard software meta-data exchange format.
> 
> > The great thing about free software that allows for access to the
> > source code is that it can be patched easily given a introspector
> > library. Of course this will not preclude others from using this
> data
> > format and data, per say, even if there will be limits to the
> secure
> > access to some data from free software via a secure web service.
> > 
> > Your work on RDF, UML and DAML has been a real inspiration for me,
> and
> > I am interested in using the great work that you have been doing.
> > 
> > We are approaching the limits of the current understanding of
> linking
> > and derived works in an networked and self descriptive systems, the
> GPL
> > covers copyright, but not the output of the software.
> > However, Where does ones creative work start and end is much more
> > easier
> > defined. 
> > Given a secure network invocation provided by a authenticating web
> > service, we should be able to limit the possibility of abuse of
> this
> > data, while providing an open standard.
> > 
> > I hope that you appreciate my humble proposal.
> > 
> > Note that I do have running code and examples, 
> > I have already XMLized all of the code GCC via a bootstrap, and am
> > working on ECMA344(CSHARP) support via the DOTGNU project.
> > 
> > The (XML/RDF)ization of BISON will provide a good starting point
> for
> > creating ONTOLOGIEs out of existing grammars.
> > 
> > Please feel free to respond to the mailing list
> > int...@li.... 
> > 
> > James Michael DuPont.
> > 
> > -----------------------------------
> > Here is my proposal : 
> > -----------------------------------
> > I propose the following API into free software development tools
> > to be licensed for the orderly, secure, fast, and high tech
> buzzword
> > compliant data backbone for a new gnu development environment.
> > 
> > ABSTRACT
> > 
> > The Introspector is a tool chain to extract meta-data about your
> > programs from the compiler and present it to you for making your
> job as
> > a programmer easier.
> > 
> > The software is free software in the spirit of the GNU manifesto
> and is
> > revolutionary in the freedoms that it intends on granting to its
> users.
> > There are many many licensing and legal issues addressed by this
> > project, and my guideline for resolving them are to limit the usage
> of
> > the tool for non-free software if there is a need to.  The legal
> and
> > licensing FAQ will be posted in the next weeks.
> > 
> > This Meta-Data includes all data collected about your software by
> the
> > Compiler, the Make system, the Project and Packaging system,
> > the CVS Logs and the Mailing List.
> > 
> > The Introspector's scope was originally just the GCC C compiler,
> but
> > will be expanded to include the extraction of  meta-data from
> different
> > compilers and interpreters.
> > 
> > The programs meta-data will be provided as a
> Perl/C#/(XML/RDF/DAML)/SQL
> > or plain old C/C++ interface.
> > 
> > We will build tools to allow this meta-data to be processed by
> various
> > GUI tools, Graph Layout Tools like VCG, Diagram Editors like DIA,
> and
> > Editors like EMACS.
> > 
> > Also Language bindings like 
> > compiling (gcc(C, C++, java) | cscc(CSHARP))
> > scripting (guile|Python|Perl { via inline::* }|Ruby)
> > reasoning (guile|scheme|lisp|prolog)
> > repository (GDBM|(POSTGRES|MYSQL)XIndice)
> > communication (soap|xmlrpc| +  a new development of a REST api)
> > 
> > This meta-data will be stored in a repository and available to
> tools
> > that need it via many different interfaces.
> > 
> > I look forward to your comments.
> > 
> > Please come visit my updated webpage at :
> > http://introspector.sourceforge.net/
> > 
> > You will find an copy of related snippets and news at :
> >  the blogger : http://gccintrospector.blogspot.com
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Mike
> > 
> > 
> > =====
> > James Michael DuPont
> > http://introspector.sourceforge.net/
> > 
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> 
> 


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