Startup::Declarative

OK, so where I want to go with Startup::Declarative is to paint a picture of an entire business, then allow the script to suggest things that have to be found out, planned, done, etc. Business processes, in other words.

To that end: the Process Classification Framework of the APQC. Also, open standards benchmarking assessments. These also suggest a long list of metrics and figures to be collected for a given business.

Startup::Declarative needs to be able to describe systems. The idea of System::Declarative will be to encapsulate a semantic description of various components that fit into a system. It could also define deployment, makefiles, whatever. The semantics of what exactly a "system" is are pretty vague.