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

[Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>]

Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 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.

Sure it does. 
> 
>: 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.

Then you will be indexing.

Do you consider the phonebook as a bad idea because it indexes all phone
numbers?

> 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.

If I knew Unit Testing (which would probably be more likely than a
spesific implementation) how do I find Aunit?

> 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.)

I think you are.

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

No not at all. But it may be useful to the handful who ask questions on
how to mix tasks and gtkada or to somebody who simply want to look at
the source code or have a new clock on the desktop. 

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

Who are they? There are about 6 billion people in the world.

>: Hyperlinks are great, but should not be overused.
> 
> I could ask you to define "overused", but I suggest we stop here :-)

Well you could link all words on your homepage to a dictionary f.ex :-)

Preben
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