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[SPEC] Backwards-compatible metadata in Gemini

Petite Abeille petite.abeille at gmail.com

Thu Feb 25 15:24:22 GMT 2021

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On Feb 25, 2021, at 16:15, Martin <devel at datenbrei.de> wrote:
What I like best are concepts, like for example the programming language lua provides, that are flexible and elegant. Where can do much with a small set of features.

Actually, in Lua's terms, this is the perennial distinction between 'mechanisms' and 'policies' — that Roberto likes to make.

As far as I can tell, text/gemini has enough 'mechanisms' (namely the link construct) to effectively implement all the metadata 'policies' one would ever want.

No need to change anything in Gemini at all.

Only to develop a set of practices to make effective use of what it has to offer today.

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