From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-01-25T02:49:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Can we attack the 'not enough libraries' thing straight on?

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:29:36PM +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

>   IPC::Msg::foo ...
>   IPC::SysV::quux ...
> 
> I think this is a good idea, but unlikely to happen anytime soon.

Gavin,

I think it's a great idea.  Why can't it happen any time soon?
There can be a person or two who could try to sort RAA into appropriate 
categories and those people can do this.  They don't have to be the 
original developers.

Once the current RAA is sorted out, we can ask that authors of additional 
modules select an appropriate category for their module.

Your idea allows for a good structuring if RAA without forcing each 
contributor to agree to rename their module.

What would be the simplest way to get this into people's computers?
Perhaps an 'aliases.rb' module that people can download?  Then the 
download page of each module in RAA could have a link to this 
'aliases.rb'.  Or is this a bad idea?


-- 
Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant.  Math Dept.
University of Maryland.  (301) 405-5137