Re: ANN: Generic LZH compressor-decompressor

[Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Gautier wrote:

|- About a central repository: a good idea - note that there is already
|the Public Ada Library, don't forget it.

Right! I really do not know how it is managed, by whom, frequency etc. But
it is indeed a useful source. Somehow, when I looked for things the
altavista/adahome/adapower approach worked better for me. I never felt
comfortable with the indexing/classifiaction etc. But maybe it is because
there were more compilers out there for Ada83, where as now it seems all
public code is direclty compilabe on GNAT...
 
|It is not versus "home page" archives that are *much* simpler in the short
|term to manage. Of course domains like XOOM are often firewalled-out
|and the servers collapse frequently. Copies to safer haevens are better...

Agreed.

|
|- About search engines: don't worry, the usual ones are already good at finding
|resources.


I like search enignes. But still searching for "whatever +Ada" doesn't
always bring you the things your are looking for. It gives you papers and
pages with links etc etc. A better search interface would allow you to say
"code to download" and will only bring Ada code. But perhaps I am
dreeming. Look at HIPPIAS (http://hippias.evansville.edu/) for something
like that for philosophy.

Ehud Lamm mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il
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