[ Sent to locator-sig, which seems dead, and starship-crew, which is definitely alive.] Here's a straw-man proposal for a Python module locator; the HTML looks...
Andrew Kuchling
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Jul 9, 1997 10:11 pm
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... tubular. [showing my age here.] -- Aaron Watters _______________ LOCATOR-SIG: Discussions about a Python Locator for resource discovery send messages to:...
Aaron Watters
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Jul 9, 1997 10:34 pm
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Andrew Kuchling wrote: ... emote YEAH! say "Dinu, but this doesn't make BSCW obsolete? Can we merge that?" -- Christian Tismer :^)...
Christian Tismer
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Jul 10, 1997 5:02 am
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In message <199707091911.PAA04359@...>, Andrew Kuchling wrote: FUTURE: How should the tree be organized? Like the contrib directory on...
Stephen M. Wynne
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Jul 9, 1997 8:04 pm
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... I think that URL's should be listed when available, as real HREF's in the HTML. If the packages don't have 'home pages', then separate URL's should be...
David Ascher
da@...
Jul 9, 1997 11:28 pm
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[ To avoid messy subject lines, follow-ups only to the Locator-SIG. ] ... That reminds me; a useful feature would be symlinks, so that Graphics/Image...
Andrew Kuchling
amk@...
Jul 9, 1997 11:38 pm
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... Hmm... that's a novel idea. Offhand I would think that the only things listed would be software; documentation is less common, and is already being...
Andrew Kuchling
amk@...
Jul 10, 1997 12:20 am
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Possible attributes, based on the Linux Software Map and suggestions from Stephen Wynne and David Ascher: Required attributes: Title: The name of the...
Andrew Kuchling
amk@...
Jul 10, 1997 12:49 am
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Back when we originally tried to get the locator going, I tried to follow the format specified by the IAFA working group (Internet Anonymous FTP archive). It...
Paul Everitt
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Jul 10, 1997 1:13 am
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... Would the CNRI "handle" system be helpful here? _______________ LOCATOR-SIG: Discussions about a Python Locator for resource discovery send messages to:...
David Ascher
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Jul 10, 1997 1:34 am
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... Note to other Locator-SIG readers: more info on IAFA and ALIWEB is at http://www.nexor.com/public/aliweb/ . Of particular interest is the description of...
Andrew Kuchling
amk@...
Jul 10, 1997 1:45 am
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... Don't stop, but wait a few days since we have a BSCW server here. That is a rather nice package which can provide you with workspaces, document trees, can...
Christian Tismer
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Jul 10, 1997 6:17 pm
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I am thrilled to see you pursuing this, andrew! I know i won't have time for at least a few days to really look at what you're doing, but wanted to dump some...
Ken Manheimer
klm@...
Jul 11, 1997 12:03 am
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... Structural links are a terrible pain! Keywords are the direct approach to providing inclusion of items in multiple categories. In particular, they don't...
Ken Manheimer
klm@...
Jul 11, 1997 12:17 am
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Andrew, Ken: I really like to see this happen -- here are some comments that actually might make things a bit easier to implement, by making them less...
Guido van Rossum
guido@...
Jul 11, 1997 12:58 am
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... Hmm. If you *mean* something other than author, then it's probably a good idea not to *say* author - so I would prefer this were called "Maintainer" it...
Tibs
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Jul 11, 1997 6:59 pm
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A FRIEND
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Nov 21, 1997 8:54 am
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[set to locator-sig for discussion] ... Yes, Aaron rulez! :) ... I had a similar problem... My GD library wrapper really belongs in some sort of Graphics...
Richard Jones
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Dec 16, 1997 6:56 am
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... Hmmm... I've also used it as a quick-and-dirty image manipulation tool. PIL would fit under the same question, and it's certainly usable for more than...
Andrew Kuchling
amk@...
Dec 16, 1997 2:27 am
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... I've had hopes of getting a Principia-based answer to a module registry. Besides the benefits listed below, one main one is that we have "keyword views"....
Paul Everitt
paul@...
Dec 16, 1997 4:08 am
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... Well, if we in the Python community have one fault, it's that we're willing to wait forever for an optimal solution, rather than making a quick...
Andrew Kuchling
amk@...
Dec 16, 1997 4:27 am
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call me wierd, but I'd like to see an LDAP-visible view of this stuff. Everything we're storing could be done as attribute:value pairs - if we spec up the...
Anthony Baxter
arb@...
Dec 16, 1997 8:34 pm
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... OK, I'll bite -- YOU'RE WEIRD! Just kidding, sounds like a cool idea. I tinkered with the RPMs from Critical Angle, never got too far. Couldn't get it to...
Paul Everitt
paul@...
Dec 16, 1997 4:49 am
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Paul Everitt <paul@...> wrote: <about the locator; here are my reactions> ... Centralized; there aren't that many Python modules, and new ones don't...
Andrew Kuchling
amk@...
Dec 17, 1997 2:30 am
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Dec 24, 1997 8:47 pm
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Jan 2, 1998 8:01 pm
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Jan 26, 1998 5:06 am
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Last December, I threatened that some clearly comatose SIGs would be terminated unless they showed some new signs of life. Some SIGs did show signs of life, or...
Guido van Rossum
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Feb 3, 1998 7:53 pm
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