Hi, I wanted to broach the topic of augmenting the POM to allow a project to categorize itself for the purposes of creating a meaningful index of projects like can be found at http://java-source.net/.
Putting aside for the moment what the actual categories would be would something like: <categories> <category>database</category> <category>visualization</category> <categories> Where a project could specify any number of categories. Or should we attempt to create/borrow an existing category hierarchy and try to use that? This is something that I think would be good for 2.0 final as creating an index of contained within a repository I think would be highly useful. -- jvz. Jason van Zyl jason at maven.org http://maven.apache.org People develop abstractions by generalizing from concrete examples. Every attempt to determine the correct abstraction on paper without actually developing a running system is doomed to failure. No one is that smart. A framework is a resuable design, so you develop it by looking at the things it is supposed to be a design of. The more examples you look at, the more general your framework will be. -- Ralph Johnson & Don Roberts, Patterns for Evolving Frameworks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
