True: there is no embedded metadata (à la Dublin Core) in the source code or in/on Github that tells you about how to compile the source code. There is still a

True: there is no embedded metadata (à la Dublin Core) in the source code or in/on Github that tells you about how to compile the source code. There is still a human-involved step in looking at the source code, even if it is in a build infrastructure (like Ports or Homebrew) it still had to be put there by a human. The closest thing for a source hub and automated build system that is probably CPAN and the like (PIP, CRAN). Another build infrastructure, focused more in the HPC niche, is Spack: * https://spack.io https://spack.io * https://spack-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html https://spack-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html