there should be both: a name and a category

Seaside - Web framework
Zinc - HTTP server
etc. 

Esteban

> On 06 Feb 2015, at 16:16, Marcus Denker <marcus.den...@inria.fr> wrote:
> 
> Yes, we need to improve that. Names are nice, but they make it harder to 
> explore the system.
> 
>> On 06 Feb 2015, at 12:43, Sean P. DeNigris <s...@clipperadams.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Markus Fritsche-4 wrote
>>> +1 to that one.
>> 
>> Yes, I also find it difficult - much more so when I was new to the
>> community, but even still a bit now. Coral, Zinc, Seaside, Opal - may be
>> catchy, but when I'm browsing the system, I just want to see where the darn
>> WebClient is, not mine for minerals or go to the beach!! ;) j/k. But
>> seriously, it's one thing to have "sexy" names at the top level - Pharo,
>> Squeak, Ruby, Python; but inside the system, it definitely creates
>> confusion. It's perhaps extra difficult for us because some of these
>> projects have both an outside and inside identity. It's an interesting open
>> problem... maybe some metadata at the MetaC/package level could help? Like
>> some standard tags like #WebClient, #Compiler, etc to say logically what
>> role a project fills...
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> Cheers,
>> Sean
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