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

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

Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Lets see. I said, "A freshmeat link to Klokka does not refer to a
> freshmeat text".  It doesn't because it can't because it refers to
> Klokka, which is not on freshmeat.  But freshmeat indices refer to
> short abstracts that refer to project sites, so they are indirect. Who
> will be editing these abstracts?  If it is you, then registering with
> freshmeat is the same as taking care of your web pages. You can add
> good linking, and you can hope that freshmeat doesn't change its
> policies.  If it isn't you then good things can happen, with luck, but
> need not.

You submitt a short and a longer description which will be edited (if
needed as not everybody in the world speaks English fluently).

> No. I won't have a links collection, but I will have cross references,
> in context (con_text_!).

But what gain is this?

>: Do you consider the phonebook as a bad idea because it indexes all
>phone : numbers?
> 
> How many times will I have to repeat that I don't think indices are
> bad?

Because you keep saying that they are unessesary.

> 
>: If I knew Unit Testing (which would probably be more likely than a :
>spesific implementation) how do I find Aunit?
> 
> This, again, is a question of where recursion starts. I don't know how
> you learn about things, but is it only through reading freshmeat?

No, but when I'm looking for software I use freshmeat, sourceforge,
yahoo, google more or less in that order.

>:>  (Again, I'm not saying that a software :> index site is useless.) :
>: I think you are.
> 
> You are free to do that.
> 
>:> Or you could start chatting with the tasking and clock people.  : :
>Who are they? There are about 6 billion people in the world.
> 
> Same question as above, you refuse my answer.

Please reitterate because I don't understand which answer that would be.

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