Re: Announcements and stuff

[Greg Harvey <Greg.Harvey@thezone.net>]

Lalo Martins <lalo@webcom.com> writes:

> On Apr 07, Greg Harvey decided to present us with:
> > 
> > The first auto generated projects page is up at
> > http://home.thezone.net/~gharvey/guile/auto-guile-projects.html; I'll
> > package all the code, and the `db' tomorrow (another 'ice cream
> > coolness' goes out to Thi for providing code). There currently isn't
> > any automation to it, but I will add new entries if they're mailed to
> > me in the format given in
> > http://home.thezone.net/~gharvey/guile/proj-mail.txt 
> 
> It looks nice. I have two suggestions, however.
> 
> First, add a "Languages" or "Translators" section. Currently
> this would contain only logo-scheme (is this the name?), but
> there are three other existing projects to go there off the top
> of my head: tcl->scheme, CTax and Sonya.

Actually, the next thing I want to do (after I implement updating for
the very simplistic database, so I have less actual cut&pasting to do
;) is generate a more heirarchial set of pages, so the main page would
be:

Applications
Core
etc...

and the applications link would take you to:

Games
Translators
XWindows
etc...

Also, it would probably be nice to have entries generated to look
something like the entries on freshmeat, but hopefully someone with
better sense of html and webpage asthetics will take a look at the
code (now up at
http://home.thezone.net/~gharvey/guile/guile-projects-0.1.tar.gz) 

> Second, add a "license" field. This crossed my mind when I saw
> Sula Primerix in the list; before that, I somehow had the notion
> that the list would only have free software, then I woke up.

There is a license field (see guile, for example), but the only
entries that currently have it are bits I wrote (so I definately know
the license), or that have been submitted to me with a license
description. When there's more information for each entry, it would be
good to segregate free/non-free packages.

-- 
Greg