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Re: multiple categories
From: |
Peter Simons |
Subject: |
Re: multiple categories |
Date: |
29 Jan 2003 12:10:12 +0100 |
Guido Draheim writes:
> [macros in more than one category]
I'm sorry, but I honestly don't see your point. You say:
> I do think that pretty soon the autoconf macro archive will be
> filled with lots and lots of specific macros. [...]
> Therefore, I do expect that people will look into just one or
> two category areas [...].
> Therefore, to make it easier to find a good macro, it would be good
> to see it reference it all categories that the archive maintainers
> thinks it is good and would be right on topic.
The "therefore" suggests that one argument logically implies the next,
but I cannot make that connection. Putting a macro into multiple
categories will make the archive _more_ ambiguous, not less.
I feel that what you're trying to achieve -- making it easier to find
a macro in the archive -- is not served by this measure. IMHO, the way
to go would be to add a search engine. You're looking for a macro that
tests the types of the socket(2) call arguments? Look for "socket".
Wondering whether the type foo_t is available in the system headers?
Search for foo_t ... That is much simpler.
Furthermore, this is also an argument _against_ splitting up the macro
index into several pages. In the current archive, you can use your
browsers' "find" function to search to _all_ macro names, whereas
splitting them into multiple pages will prevent that.
Can you give us/me an example of a macro that should go into more than
one category, given the category system we're planning to implement
now?
>> Using a more fine-grained category system would [make a large
>> archive user friendlier].
> but we do not have that much categories, and probably do not _want_
> to have too many anyway since it is best to make the whole
> ac-archive "browsable" [...].
Why don't we want to have more categories than planned right now?
Why would having more categories make the archive less browse-able
instead of more?
>> [obsolete macros should not appear in their old category]
> Say that someone says "pick up macro xx from ac-archive's c
> support", how does that turn out? Same thing for links into the
> ac-archive from somewhere else - the macro should persist for some
> time in its original place.
If you look at the on-line archive, you'll find that all available
macros follow this scheme:
http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/htmldoc/MACRO_NAME.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/m4source/MACRO_NAME.m4
The path of the macro does not depend on the category it is in. By
changing a macro's category (ie- to "obsolete"), we do not change it's
URL on the server.
Peter
- macro: guidod/patch_libtool_on_darwin_zsh_overquoting.m4, Guido Draheim, 2003/01/24
- Re: macro: guidod/patch_libtool_on_darwin_zsh_overquoting.m4, Peter Simons, 2003/01/28
- Re: macro: guidod/patch_libtool_on_darwin_zsh_overquoting.m4, Guido Draheim, 2003/01/28
- Re: macro: guidod/patch_libtool_on_darwin_zsh_overquoting.m4, Peter Simons, 2003/01/28
- Re: macro: guidod/patch_libtool_on_darwin_zsh_overquoting.m4, Guido Draheim, 2003/01/28
- Re: macro: guidod/patch_libtool_on_darwin_zsh_overquoting.m4, Peter Simons, 2003/01/28
- re: multiple categories / Re: macro: guidod/patch_libtool_on_darwin_zsh_overquoting.m4, Guido Draheim, 2003/01/28
- Re: multiple categories, Peter Simons, 2003/01/28
- Re: multiple categories, Guido Draheim, 2003/01/29
- Re: multiple categories,
Peter Simons <=
- Re: multiple categories, Guido Draheim, 2003/01/29
- Re: multiple categories, Peter Simons, 2003/01/29
- Re: multiple categories, Guido Draheim, 2003/01/29
- Re: multiple categories, Peter Simons, 2003/01/29
- Re: multiple categories, Guido Draheim, 2003/01/29
- Re: multiple categories, Peter Simons, 2003/01/30
- Re: multiple categories, Guido Draheim, 2003/01/30
- Re: multiple categories, Peter Simons, 2003/01/31
- Re: multiple categories, Guido Draheim, 2003/01/31