[admin] Volunteer for taxonomy.

[Mario Mommer]

Nikodemus Siivola <tsiivola at cc.hut.fi> writes:
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Mario Mommer wrote:
> 
> > Well, I can do it, but it will be next week. How about the following
> > categories.
> 
> Goodiegood. A couple of random thoughs:
> 
> > System
> 
> Stuff like asdf/defsystem, or stuff like osicat?

Yep, osicat.

> > Extensions
> >
> > Interfacing
> 
> These two also make me wonder what they mean. Is extensions essentially
> portable CL extensions to CL,

Yes, like your anaphoric macro package

> and Interfacing CL interfaces to foreign
> libraries?

yes, + file formats, like the binary file format package by Andreas
Fuchs. One wonders if XML tools go here.

My list of categories does not cover slime and the NYLispniks CD. Just
one category "IDE"?

Where do we put Brians C to Lisp translator?

> One (probably _bad_) higly alternative idea would be to use "category"
> like labels only as keywords, and make the taxonomy "less boring".
[snip]

:-)

The problem with this is that this becomes less funny with time, and
people will find it not very usefull. Google et al are also locked
out. When was the last time you where looking for some kludge to load
down?

Regards,
        Mario.