From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-01-26T11:17:12+09:00
Subject: Re: RAA proposal

On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 10:57:28AM +0900, Jim Freeze wrote:

>  Hmm... this was discussed some time back. I'm not sure we can come
>  up with a comprehensive top level list.

Sure we can.  The Perl guys do, other projects do, why can't we?
We just need generic top-level categories.  Perhaps add a "Misc" category 
for stuff that truly doesn't fit anywhere.

> Below is a trimmed list
>  of the the top level of the bsd ports:
> 
>  biology         ftp             mbone           shells
>  cad             games           misc            sysutils
>  multimedia      textproc        comms           graphics        
>  net             converters      news
>  databases       palm            www             deskutils
>  irc             x11             Templates       
>  x11             Tools           archivers       editors         
>  print           astro           emulators       lang            
>  audio           finance         mail            science
>  benchmarks      math            security        

But all the libraries here *can* be put into the categories above.  Below 
I have put all of these in the categories above.  The only items that I 
didn't fit into those categories are:

* Things that are *apps*, not *libs* :
  games, emulators, sysutils, deskutils, editors

* Things I don't understand: converters, mbone

* Misc.

Naturally, the Apps section will have its own categories.

Each element from the list above is denoted with a <--.

Business
   Finance   <--

Security     <--

Science      <--
   Astro     <--
   Biology   <--
   Computer Science
      Cad    <--
   Math

Media
   Multimedia   <--
   Audio        <--
   Graphics     <--

Networking
   Net          <--
   IRC          <--
   FTP          <--
   News         <--
   WWW          <--
   Mail         <--

Databases       <--

User Interfaces
   X11          <--
   Print        <--
   Shells       <--

Development
   Benchmarks   <--
   Comms        <--
   Palm         <--
   Tools        <--
   Templates    <--
   Archivers    <--

Text Processing <--
   Lang

> Some of these you mention. Others, I think some could be added
> to your list above.
> 
> > Here is the more complete set of categories (Mark, tell me if I got 
> > something wrong):
> > 
> > 1.  Business
> >        e-commerce
> >        finance
> > 
> > 2.  Data Structures
> >        Algorithm
> >        Array   
> >        Binary  
> >        Enumerable
> >        Graph   
> >        Hash
> >        Queue
> >        Stack
> >        Time
> >        Tree
> > 
> > 3.  Database
> >        MySQL
> >        Postgresql
> >        
> > 4. Development Support
> >        Benchmark
> >        CVS
> >        Compression
> >        Debugging
> >        Design Patterns
> >        Integrated Development Environment
> >        Internationalization
> >             I18N
> >        Operating System Interfaces
> >             Be
> >             BSD
> >             Dos  
> >             Linux
> >             Mac
> >             Solaris
> >             Windows
> >        Testing
> >   
> > 5.  Media
> >        Audio
> >        Graphics
> >        Icons
> >        MIDI
> >        Mp3
> >        Speech
> > 
> > 6.  Networking & Web
> >        Distributed Computing
> >        Mail and Usenet News
> >        World Wide Web
> >           CGI
> >           Jabber
> > 
> > 7.  Science
> >        Biology
> >        Math
> >        Computer Science
> >        AI   
> >        Languages
> >           C 
> >           Forth
> >           Lisp
> >           Lua
> >           Python
> >        Physics
> >        Chemistry
> > 
> > 8.  Security
> >        Cryptography
> > 
> > 9. Text Processing
> >        PDF 
> >        regular expressions
> >        yaml
> > 
> > 10. User Interfaces
> >        Fox
> >        Gtk  
> >        Qt
> >        Text (curses, etc.?)
> >        Tk
> >        Wx
> >        X Windows

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