Hi,
Sean has left the following comment at Categorize all of BRL-CAD's commands
into a spreadsheet
http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7970237:
have to stay on IRC
If you read http://brlcad.org/wiki/IRC you'll notice one of the etiquette
expectations of IRC is to be patient. I know a couple of times when someone
attempted to respond to you and you'd already disconnected from IRC. People
that use IRC are often online 24/7 but they're not necessarily sitting in
front of their computer just waiting for you to ask a question or able to
answer even if they're in the middle of talking to others. So please be
patient and, more importantly, stay on the channel. screen+irssi on a
remote server is a beautiful thing to learn.
As for this task, let's try redefining the goal. I think the original goals
attempts to accomplish too much. Your spreadsheet is a good indicator of
that complexity and it wouldn't be fair to you to attempt so much work (you
barely made it through 10% and didn't describe any categories).
So let's start over with a simple spreadsheet, just two columns: file and
category. You're going to itemize every file installed into our 'bin'
directory (like you started in your spreadsheet). For each of those files,
categorize it.
It should be possible to characterize nearly all of the commands into a set
of useful independent categories. Here are some examples:
The first one I find is "3dm-g", that's easily identified as a "geometry
converter" and that's the category you mark.
Second one is "ad". Maybe you don't know what that is but you run it, you
see the usage statement and understand that it converts ascii strings to
numbers. So you make a "data conversion" category. Later you might need to
redefine that category, but for now it works.
Third is "alias-pix", and we see in the manpage (brlman alias-pix) that it
converts an image, so we create a new "image conversion" category.
And so on ...
Now WAIT .. that's not all. You don't want to end up with too many commands
in any category. I think around 30 is probably a reasonable limit for any
single category.
With that limit, you'll quickly discover that "geometry converter" was too
vague and there are too many (42). So you need to go back and recategorize
them as "geometry importer" and "geometry exporter" instead.
Make sense?
So when you're done, you'll have a spreadsheet with all the commands listed
and categorized into useful categories. Easy enough to understand?
Greetings,
The Google Open Source Programs Team
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