Re: Standard Library Interest?

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

But we've been there and done that numerous times. That's why it needs 
some kind of "Official Standing" and probably some high level of 
integration, consistency, orthogonality, documentation, etc., etc. 
*Anybody* can pull together a bunch of existing stuff from the internet. 
Getting it accepted as "The Thing" requires something more.

MDC



Stephane Richard wrote:
> 
> A very justifiable question, because of the history of adapower and
> adahome.(I didn't know adahome had such an idea, but then again I haven't
> been in the Ada field long enough I suppose.
> 
> My idea of a centralized repository of libraries.  is really as it's name
> implies.  I'd like to build, in essense, a hierarchy if libraries...where
> users can go look (by any way they want) for what they need and looking for.
> I plan on searching from more than one point of view  as in present the
> library many different ways based on if and how much they know about what
> they want.
> 
> A curious eye might not search the same way as someone looking for a
> specific library or binding.  If I could I would give it a taxonomy chart of
> some sort too for the sake of classification. :-).  whatever needs to be
> done.  (again open to suggestions on how to search within the the Library) I
> got ideas on my own and a good deal of em, but it dont mean I got every
> "good" way there could be :-).
> 
> I want a database, of course for library records, but these records would
> merely point to files in the server (possibly organized the same way as the
> taxonomy chart.  sousers could quickly do research in the library either
> based on a series of keywords, or based on categories or based on
> name/pattern matching, based on dates (if they just want to know what's new
> in the last week or so, etc etc...
> 
> I think the picture I got in my head is much clearer than what's in these
> past paragraphs but I think I explained it clear enough.  :-).
> 


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