From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: eliz@is.elta.co.il, hattons@speakeasy.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs cvs newbie problems
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 20:32:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E17wtv2-0001LT-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210021336.g92DaF814104@f7.net> (karl@freefriends.org)
GNU Packages
Texinfo documentation system
Printing Tools
GNU programming tools
Emacs
GNU Gettext Utilities
GNU programming support
GNU libraries
GNU programming documentation
GNU organization
GNU music project
TeX
DOS
Other things
Individual utilities
TeX, DOS and Emacs seem like useful categories. "Printing" would be a
good category, but the name "Printing tools" is not as good.
The others don't make any sense. They are either too broad, or too
narrow, or they focus on the wrong distinctions (such as GNU vs
non-GNU or tools vs support).
Texinfo probably belongs in the TeX category, and in a category
called "Text Formatting". Gettext belongs in "Internationalization".
Programming tools probably should be divided into
two categories, "Programming" and "Scripting".
Popular languages such as C, C++, Perl, Python, and Java
probably deserve categories too.
Do you see the logic now? Imagine that you know vaguely what sort of
job you want to do but you don't know what programs there are to do
it. What categories would be useful for you?
It's like choosing subject listings for the Subject catalog in a
library: you want them to be useful for people to find books they have
never heard of. "GNU libraries" as a subject is analogous to "Random
House hardcovers"--not a useful subject classification.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-03 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-02 13:36 Emacs cvs newbie problems Karl Berry
2002-10-03 0:32 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-07 15:51 Karl Berry
2002-10-08 17:21 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-07 15:51 Karl Berry
2002-10-07 16:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-04 15:57 Karl Berry
2002-10-05 16:33 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-04 13:00 Karl Berry
2002-10-04 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-04 19:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-05 16:33 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-04 22:08 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-04 22:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-06 16:14 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-03 15:07 Karl Berry
2002-10-02 13:36 Karl Berry
2002-10-03 0:33 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-03 4:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-04 3:48 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-04 10:05 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-10-04 15:46 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-04 18:28 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-10-05 16:33 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-04 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-02 13:36 Karl Berry
2002-10-02 20:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-01 20:51 Karl Berry
2002-10-02 4:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-01 20:07 Karl Berry
2002-10-01 20:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-02 19:23 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-02 4:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-01 17:24 Karl Berry
2002-10-01 18:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-01 14:13 Karl Berry
2002-10-01 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-02 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-02 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-01 14:13 Karl Berry
2002-10-01 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-01 18:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-02 4:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-02 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-01 14:13 Karl Berry
2002-10-02 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-30 21:43 Karl Berry
2002-10-01 4:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-30 14:12 Karl Berry
2002-09-30 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-01 6:18 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-16 21:07 Karl Berry
2002-09-16 0:02 Karl Berry
2002-09-16 1:41 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-16 2:14 ` Alan Shutko
2002-09-16 5:40 ` Rob Browning
2002-09-18 18:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-16 1:51 ` Steven T. Hatton
2002-09-16 19:28 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-18 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-20 3:09 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-20 4:45 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-20 18:42 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-20 21:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-20 21:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-20 22:07 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-20 22:41 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-21 8:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-21 19:39 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-21 22:13 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-22 4:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-30 2:49 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-30 3:40 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-30 5:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-01 6:17 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-01 7:49 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-20 22:19 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-14 20:40 Steven T. Hatton
2002-09-14 21:12 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-14 22:11 ` Steven T. Hatton
2002-09-14 23:03 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-15 1:24 ` Steven T. Hatton
2002-09-15 2:42 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-15 11:13 ` Steven T. Hatton
2002-09-15 12:42 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-15 20:50 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-15 20:50 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-15 0:08 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-15 20:50 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-15 15:37 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-15 15:16 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-09-14 6:20 Steven T. Hatton
2002-09-14 6:40 ` Damien Elmes
2002-09-15 1:50 ` Richard Stallman
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=E17wtv2-0001LT-00@fencepost.gnu.org \
--to=rms@gnu.org \
--cc=eliz@is.elta.co.il \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=hattons@speakeasy.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.