Re: Ada packages and/on web pages (was Re: GPGME (was Re: GnuPG binding?))

[Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>]

Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote:
: But registering your link at places like freshmeat *IS* cross
: referencing.

No, it's indexing. A freshmeat link to your site does not refer
to a freshmeat text, or to other text that might be related to
your text.

: I cannot go into your page and put a link to my page f.ex.

But you can ask me. This is the communications network. If
information about your text is useful to know for my text,
I will add a link to your text.

:> I am trying to talk about authors who include helpful links to sources
:> of information in their articles about their software.
 
: Well were do one find the information then?

It has been possible to find information before the invention
of the world wide web. It is still possible because the techniques
have not yet been forgotten.

In the case of AUnit, the authors have obviously known Unit Testing,
and so they have added a link. Of course flow of information has
to start somewhere, somehow Unit Testing must be made known.
But this is only for getting things started. Recur, from then on.

: how do you find gnat if you have no clue where it is?

How should I be looking for GNAT when there has not been a
link in the general communications network that had "told me"
about GNAT in the first place? If it has been a person, for
example, I can ask. (Again, I'm not saying that a software
index site is useless.)

: You are talking about referencing to others packages, but how do you get
: others to reference to *your* packages?

See my answer to this question above.

:   http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/Ada95/Klokka/
: 
: as you can see I do this, but it doesn't mean that GNAT will link to my
: small toy for experimenting with tasks and gtkada.

Will this link add useful information, from the GNAT perspective?

: So to get a reference
: to my tool I can register it at freshmeat f.ex so others can find it
: when they are looking for something similar.

Or you could start chatting with the tasking and clock people.

:> The WWW _could_ be
:> a good dictionary, with search engines becoming just a useful add on.
: 
: This is in my humble opinion theory at best, utopian at worst.

Not in my opinion.

: Have you
: ever tried to read a heavily crosslinked document?

Frequently. I find it a relief.

: You end up loosing
: the thread of the documentation due to too many possible detours.

That's not the fault of links, you have to learn how to read
and sticking to the subject. As in browsing an encyclopedia.
As in following the details of a program. As in news groups ;-)

: Hyperlinks are great, but should not be overused.

I could ask you to define "overused", but I suggest we stop here :-)


Georg