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[Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>]

Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> On Feb 24, Duane Malcolm [d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz] wrote:
>
> > I was thinking the categories that Freshmeat or Sourceforge might help 
> > or be a guide. I'm thinking of using their categories for the science 
> > section. I noticed they don't have a usually separate libraries into a 
> > separate category. I also noticed a program can be part of many 
> > sections, or in their terms "topics". Would it be reasonable to have a 
> > flag in the DETAILS file called "TOPIC" or "CATEGORY". Just thinking out 
> > loud.
>
>
> Can you describe what problem this would solve?  It seems to me that it
> would mostly make moving spells more difficult.  Or were you thinking of
> some kind of one-to-many relationship here?
An example a few months ago was the spell "celestia", it actually 
existed in the science section in the test grimoire and the edutainment 
section in the games grimoire. They are both valid sections for the 
spell. In the end we decided it's more suitable in the science section. 
I checked on Sourceforge and it's topics were "Education, 
Games/Entertainment, 3D Rendering, Astronomy". If the DETAILS file had a 
"CATEGORY=Education, Games/Entertainment, 3D Rendering, Astronomy" then 
it means it can be stored and maintained by the science section but 
users can search by category and find it whether they are wanting 
astronomy spells or educational spells for children. It would be similar 
in some ways to the short description.

A better example is the section "gnome2-apps" store gnome applications 
however, the section name doesn't describe what the spell does, gedit is 
an editor, gthumb is a image viewer and gnumeric is a great spreadsheet, 
however someone new to linux cannot distingush this from the section 
name. A category flag will solve this. And the directory structure can 
become transparent to the user and becomes a storage method for maintainers.

gthumb Sourceforge Topic: Gnome, Viewer
gedit Sourceforge Topic: Gnome, Text Editors

So in summary it solves the problem of spells belonging to multiple 
section but exist in one.

Cheers, Duane