Drupal.org already has growth issues.  Adding yet another thing for it to do that could break and there are only 3-5 people who could fix it and hundreds who would scream about it being broken and post in every forum complaining and attacking isn’t on my list of things that would be good.

-sp

From: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of adrian rossouw
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 3:16 AM
To: development@drupal.org
Subject: Re: [development] Drupal's CVS policies... including

On 21 May 2007, at 10:36 PM, Ken Rickard wrote:

Include a section in the Project description that lets the developer place links to the supported third-party libraries hosted on external sites.  These would be similar to the CVS / Documentation link fields that we have now.

how about you define it in the .info, and drupal.org processes it from there.

This way we could also build a package building script that can automate making gzips containing the info.