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:
>: 
>: The context of freshmeat is available software.
> 
> The "context" of something is
> a/ the words around it in a text
> b/ figuratively, things seen together with the thing, which let
>    it appear in a specific light. You could have another "context",
>    which will shed a different light on the thing and thus offer a different
>    perspective.
> So, available software is one item that we have in the (b)-context
> of freshmeat. We don't have an (a)-context around it in a link list
> other than the other links, and in the abstract for one item this
> context is gone.

And I'd say for this (b) is/and will be very important as the volume of
information (a) increases. You need both you don't need just (a).

>: And you can click f.ex
>: on Programming Language Ada and filter out
> 
> Yes, that is what indices are good for. But the result is not
> a crosslinked text but a collection of pointers to Ada projects.

Well there are no such things to date. Adapower is closer, but it is
still more (b) than (a) accoring to that you wrote above.

> A useful collection, but the result does not give you a replacement
> for the work done by authors, who have added cross references to
> both
> - anchors in their own texts and

This you can still have even if you anchor your page at f.ex freshmeat.

> - to anchors in texts written by other authors.

But a link from one minute homepage to another (and possibly back) won't
make the software/information much more easy to find. And I doubt one
company would like to link to a competitors software f.ex.

Say one made a library and a number of programs used this library, it
would be nice for the library to link to these programs to show that it
is being used, but I would not expect that they wrote anything more than
a simple list with a short description (one line). The web-pages of the
programs should link to the library naturally because you might need to
download it to make the software work.

On the other hand I wouldn't think vim.sf.net would link to my minor
page on vim because I have written a bit about vim and have (although
not ready yet) made a small script for vim. But luckily vim.sf.net has a
repository so I can add information and a link to my script when I'm
finished.


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