Constellation

[Richard Gaskin]

Alex Tweedly wrote:
> Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 
>> Ben Fisher wrote
>>
>>>  I propose that a central website be created, full of code from the Rev
>>> universe. More structured than a wiki, files would be uploaded into
>>> categories and directories, but the whole database could be quickly
>>> searched. Most importantly, there would be a section composed of 
>>> tools and
>>> utilities all completely free and open source.
>>
>>
>>
>> I can create a section at revJournal for that.
>> Would you like to be the editor of that section?
>>
> I'd suggest making it more like an index than a complete repository. 
> Many people currently have Rev stacks available on their own web-sites, 
> and will wish to continue to do so. Duplicating those stacks in some 
> central repository places a burden on someone to keep it up to date. And 
> it's easy to run a link-checker on an "index", but not easy to run an 
> "is it up to date check" on stacks.
> 
> So by all means allow stacks to be put into the repository - but also 
> allow for the (I suspect more common) case where the stack is already 
> available on-line, and only a pointer to it is needed in the central place.

I think that's an excellent idea.   Very much like RevNet.

We can publish the index in a simple delimited format for use by RevNet, 
Eric Chatonet's tools, and any other viewer anyone cares to make for the 
repository.

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  Richard Gaskin
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