Re: Standard Library Interest?

[Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>]

"Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net> writes:

> "Stephen Leake" <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote in message
> news:uad8cbxhy.fsf@nasa.gov...
> >
> > www.adapower.com tried that, with very limited success. Before that,
> > www.adahome.com had a similar idea. How is your site going to be
> > better?
> >
> <snip>
> 
> A curious eye might not search the same way as someone looking for a
> specific library or binding.  If I could I would give it a taxonomy chart of
> some sort too for the sake of classification. :-).  whatever needs to be
> done.  (again open to suggestions on how to search within the the Library) I
> got ideas on my own and a good deal of em, but it dont mean I got every
> "good" way there could be :-).
> 
> I want a database, of course for library records, but these records would
> merely point to files in the server (possibly organized the same way as the
> taxonomy chart.  sousers could quickly do research in the library either
> based on a series of keywords, or based on categories or based on
> name/pattern matching, based on dates (if they just want to know what's new
> in the last week or so, etc etc...

You are describing a huge amount of work. Cataloging random code is
hard. Do you really have the resources to keep doing that for the next
20 years? How are you currently getting paid?

Marin has an article in the current Ada Letters that goes into some of
this; good reading.

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-- Stephe