Fwd: Re: [plt-internal] contrib page replaced by PLaneT? by a wiki?

--- Matthew Flatt <mflatt-sDh8Nw2yj/[email protected]> wrote:

Any thoughts here?  I think it is good plan to at least
create an ExternalSoftware page, to catch links to SSAX,
WebIt etc.  I don't see a problem with this being the
'Official' place to record this information either.  

N.

> At Fri, 25 Jun 2004 02:25:21 -0700 (PDT), Noel Welsh
> wrote:
> > Do have a look at 
> > 
> >   http://schemewiki.org/
> > 
> > and in particular
> > 
> >   http://schemecookbook.org/bin/view/Cookbook/WebHome
> 
> Thanks! I didn't really understand before how the
> cookbook is a wiki,
> so it didn't sink in.
> 
> 
> Is this is the right replacement for the information half
> of the
> "contrib" page? To make the question concrete, should
> Jean-Pierre Lozi
> create a recipe suitable to point to "MrEd Designer"?
> 
> That makes a lot of sense to me, but I'm not sure it's
> what you have in
> mind.
> 
> 
> Just to push the idea a little more, maybe there could be
> a catch-all
> "links to software" page in the wiki? A contributor who
> hasn't yet
> understood how the cookbook works could at least dump a
> link onto that
> page. Then more knowledgeable editors would know that the
> software
> exists, and perhaps integrate it better into the
> cookbook.
> 
> [I know --- PLaneT will one day provide a software list,
> too. But my
> guess is that putting code into PLaneT will require more
> work than
> dropping a link on a wiki. I'd like to have a place for
> people who
> insist on packaging code into a .tar.gz to let others
> know that it
> exists. If the code is useful, someone else can take it
> from there.]
> 
> Matthew



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