From: Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...>
Date: 2003-01-26T05:57:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Can we attack the 'not enough libraries' thing straight on?

The following is my initial, and not yet complete, proposal on 
categories for the libraries section of the RAA.  It is based on CPAN, 
with some modifications.


Bundles

Business
   e-commerce
   finance

Compression

Data Structures and Manipulation
   Algorithm
   Array
   Binary
   Enumerable
   Graph
   Hash
   Math
   Queue
   Stack
   Time
   Tree

Database
   MySQL
   Postgresql

Development Support
   Benchmark
   CVS
   Debugging
   Design Patterns
   Integrated Development Environment
   Testing

Internationalization
   I18N

Mail and Usenet News

Media
   Audio
   Graphics
   Icons
   MIDI
   Mp3
   Speech

Networking
   Distributed Computing

Operating System Interfaces
   Be
   BSD
   Dos
   Linux
   Mac
   Solaris
   Windows

Science
   Biology
   Computer Science
     AI
     Languages
       C
       Forth
       Lisp
       Lua
       Python
   Physics
   Chemistry

Security
   Cryptography

[String, Language, Text] Processing
   PDF
   regular expressions
   yaml

User Interfaces
   Fox
   Gtk
   Qt
   Text (curses, etc.?)
   Tk
   Wx
   X Windows

World Wide Web
   CGI
   Jabber

As an additional note, some of the items in the current RAA 
applications category probably belong in the libraries category (yaml 
is one example).