On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Tom Sawyer wrote:

> Dave makes a very good point. and it was mentioned before that having multiple
> categories that a given package can fall into can be very helpful.
>
> case in point. i have a library that is primarily a database web-application
> framework, but it can be used just for the database aspects and not the web
> parts. if it gets placed under WWW then that will easily go overlooked.
>
> and i think this is a good starting point for an improved RAA: Implement
> multiple categories.

if you mean something like

module DbWebApp
....
end

module WWW
  include DbWebApp
....
end

module DB
  include DbWebApp
....
end

then i think this is a great idea.  see my post about categories and
hierarchies.

-a



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