[Coco] organize maltedmedia

[Frank Pittel]

As soon as you mentioned database I started thinking cpan or something like it.
Of course having spent most of this weekend working on various perl scripts for
work.

The Other Frank


On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 09:24:03PM -0400, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Tony <tonym at compusource.net> wrote:
> 
> (snip)
> 
> >
> > OK - then as a group, let' come up with a scheme - Productivity and
> > Applications are both the same, well, Prod would be under Apps, I was
> > just jotting quickly, so drop Productivity, and just keep Applications.
> >
> > So something like:
> >
> > Apps
> > Drivers
> > Games
> > System
> > Utility
> >
> > ?
> 
> Sounds much better to me.
> 
> One item to think about is the big disk collections like the CFDM and
> various usergroups disk sets.  Those of course have some software from
> all of the above categories, but are also significant in their own
> right as a set.
> Takes us back to the age old problem of using a filesystem to arrange
> something that belongs in a database... hierarchical structures just
> don't fit the real world very often.  Keeping things general instead
> of trying to be overly specific helps with that but corner cases still
> always stink.
> Ideally we could all agree on some open, standard thing that allowed
> multiple fields of data (then a program might belong to several
> categories instead of being forced to pick just one).  Not sure if its
> possible though.
> 
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