Talk:Library Categorization

Instead of gui_design, gui_graph, ... I would prefer

• gui
  • design
  • graph
  • ..

argument_parser would be better as

• parse
  • argument

About Gobo, it could be exploded into kernel, structure, time, parse, lexical, xml, ... But we can not do that, so what about adding a category "Package", or "Framework"

--Jocelyn 08:12, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

I would suggest the following 2-layer structure (if there is a new name, the old one is written in parentheses, in particular, something_extension is not very meaningful):

• base: Kernel library classes, data structure, reflection, I/O
• concurrency
  • process: Facility to start and follow processes
  • thread: Threading in Eiffel
  • cgi (web): CGI facility for Eiffel
• external: interface to the external software
  •  ? (api_wrapper): Make it easy to call C routines from dynamically loaded shared libraries
  • com: COM technology
  • java (Eiffel2Java): Calling Java from Eiffel
• gobo: Gobo
• gui
  • docking: Facility to have a customizable UI.
  • event: Low level mechanism to receive a UI event when a file/pipe has something new.
  • graph: Representation of graph in UI (See diagram tool in Eiffel Studio).
  • vision2: Platform independent UI toolkit
  •  ? (vision2_extension): Extension to Vision2
  • wel: UI toolkit for Windows
• storage
  • memory (memory_analyzer): Memory analysis
  • preferences: Facility to store user preferences
  • store: Relational database access
• text
  • argument (argument_parser): Parsing the command line arguments of a program
  • diff: Diff and patch facilities
  • encoding: Transforming text in one encoding to another encoding
  • i18n: Internationalization library:
  • lex: lexical analysis
  • parse: Parsing:
  • uuid: UUID generation facility
• util
  •  ? (gobo_extension): ISE gobo extensions
  • net: Networking library
  • testing: Testing facility
  • time: Time facility

--Alexander Kogtenkov 15:52, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Instead of Language Interfaces how about Interop?

--paulb 23:29, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

To comment Alexander's message: Given the importance of the internet today, it sounds weird to have EiffelNet under "Utils" Let's add a "Network" category ... Then, we could add twitter, jabber, eventually Eiffel Web?

--Jocelyn 05:59, 19 August 2009 (UTC)