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steam is a module detecting Debian package tags on Erlang projects.

Debian package tags are used because of their completeness compared to many other distributions. However those tags can be easily transcoded to anothers if needed.

Reference is Debtags.

All relevant tags for Erlang projects are automatically detected from abstract code, except tags of facet use. This subjective facet cannot be detected for now and to be declared by projects maintainers.

Contributions are welcome. Please use pull-requests.

Facet use (The general purpose of the software) is to be informed by Erlang projects maintainer in src/steam_use.hrl.

Note : only pull requests coming from owner of project will be accepted for this facet use.

Alternatively, and prefered way, you can tune steam tags by adding attribute in your own project code.

Simply add a steam attribute in top of your main project file, as a list containing optional tuples :

• Tuple tag contains a list of tags to add to steam analyze. Note that ALL tags must already exists in steam project or none will be added. You can verify this by getting the whole list with steam:tags() function.
• Tuple untag contains a list of tags to remove from steam analyze. This should be used only to repair a false positive until a fix in steam code is done.

-steam([{tag,['use::analysing']}, % Add tag(s) (must ALL exists)
		{untag,[]}                % Remove any unwanted tag(s)
	   ]).

Extracting Debian tags use steam:tags/1.

Argument is the path to the Erlang project root directory.

Returns {ok, ListOfTags} or {error, Reason}.

1> steam:tags("/path/to/root/project/directory/").
{ok,['implemented-in::erlang','protocol::ip',
     'protocol::ssh','scope::suite','use::organizing']}

Debian tag classification use Facets.

Listing facets used in tags : steam:facets().

Listing all potential facets : steam:facets(all).

Listing available tags : steam:tags().

git clone git://github.com/crownedgrouse/steam.git
cd steam
make
erl -pa `pwd`/ebin

or

git clone git://github.com/crownedgrouse/steam.git
cd steam
make shell