<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.19088"></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=434100318-04082011><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Great ideas, thanks! Defenitely need a human browsable repository and an API to automate and extent searches. Nice examples, also. BTW, liitin namespace can be abbreviated as plain ":" i.e. liitin:object-name equals to :object-name.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=434100318-04082011><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=434100318-04082011><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I've also thought about Mediawiki engine that might be able to handle atleast some of the mentioned requirements.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=434100318-04082011></SPAN><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=434100318-04082011><FONT face=Arial> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=434100318-04082011><FONT face=Arial>br, jukka</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=434100318-04082011></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=434100318-04082011> </SPAN>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Rodolfo Carvalho [mailto:rhcarvalho@gmail.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> 04 August 2011 19:54<BR><B>To:</B> Jukka Tuominen<BR><B>Cc:</B> users@racket-lang.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [racket] FW: External connection to Finndesign Liitin<BR><BR></DIV></FONT></FONT> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" dir=ltr> <DIV class=gmail_quote>On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 06:26, Jukka Tuominen <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:jukka.tuominen@finndesign.fi">jukka.tuominen@finndesign.fi</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=gmail_quote><U></U> <DIV> <DIV><SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi Rodolfo,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I'm glad you liked it :)</FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>I've been following your announcements. Your ideal is interesting.</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=gmail_quote> <DIV> <DIV><SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Unfortunately there's not yet a decent way to find out what's available. I've noticed the same need while 'dog-fooding' on the system, and have planned to approach it in two ways:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial>- Provide an internal/external channel for people to make announcements (= web and/or posting list)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial>- Add a search functionality atleast with free-text search on object name and content, and 'my history' options.</FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Maybe some kind of indexed and searchable repository would be nice. Then this repository could provide an API to search for things.</DIV> <DIV>For example one can do an "apt-cache search ..." to search APT repositories from the console, as well as use a GUI like Synaptic to perform a similar task.</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>> (take 2 (liitin:search "calculator"))</DIV> <DIV>...</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>> (length (liitin:category "games"))</DIV> <DIV>42</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>[]'s</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Rodolfo Carvalho</DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>