Libraries don't know who they are

[xogeny]

The data in for each library doesn't include the libraries name. The library name only appears as a key in the enclosing map/dict. This creates an issue if you pass the library data around because the name isn't available.

[dietmarw]

Can you clarify what you mean with "data in"?

[xogeny]

What I mean is the index contains data like this:

  "FaultTriggering": {
      "homepage": "https://github.com/DLR-SR/FaultTriggering", 
      "description": "Library for fault modelling in Modelica", 
      "versions": {
          "0.6.2": {
            ...
          }
      }
   }

If I then grab the library data like this:

libinfo = index["FaultTriggering"];

The object libinfo no longer knows the name of the library. So if I pass libinfo to a function, that function has no idea what library this is. But if, instead, we had:

  "FaultTriggering": {
      "name": "FaultTrigger",
      "homepage": "https://github.com/DLR-SR/FaultTriggering", 
      "description": "Library for fault modelling in Modelica", 
      "versions": {
          "0.6.2": {
            ...
          }
      }
   }

Then we wouldn't have that problem.

Is that clear?

[dietmarw]

Ah yes that's clear now.

[xogeny]

No longer a problem. Libraries know who they are. They even have a canonical URI to disambiguate forks, etc.