gnu.* namespace discussion

Fri Apr 14 12:38:00 GMT 2000

>> In what way is anyone else using gnu.java.* which conflicts with
GNU
>> Classpath? Maybe that's the real problem. No central name space
>> controller has been forthcoming from the FSF.

>The central name space controller is supposed to be
> http://www.gnu.org/software/java/java-software.html 

I am in the middle of re-organising this page and this is a rather
long email explaining my intentions.
I'm going to re-org the current java-software page into "themes",
ie:
- Development
ie: classpath, gcj, kaffe, japhar, jmk, javadeps, etc...
- Languages
ie: Kawa (Scheme)
- Web
ie: GNUJSP, GNU-Paperclips, HTMLParser etc...
- Java Packages
The "Java Packages" section will be documentation of the current gnu.
name space. I would like to subdivide that as well, or perhaps
interleave the packages into the various "themes" but that will
create a problem because many packages have multiple uses.
The current Java page will become a list of ongoing Java projects but
will continue to include the existing political statements. It will be
linked to from the new java-software page.
Hopefully this small re-organsation will make things a little
clearer.
My ultimate goal is to re-org the GNU software list, to include the
Java applications (ie: gcj, kaffe, etc...) in the software list itself
and to have a seperate page purely for documenting GNU Java packages.
Then to add a web front end to subversions and provide some editorial
system for GNU to accept contributions to the project.
I've been thinking that a general GNU Java discussion list might be
usefull... but that is a job for later.
If anybody has any thoughts or opionions on this please let me know.
I'm anxious to keep everybody on side.
Nic Ferrier