Great idea! Thanks for doing this.

I've just fixed my packages, and introduced "Performance Tools",
"Slideshow Libraries" and "Scribble Libraries" categories.

Vincent



On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 16:04:14 -0600,
Jay McCarthy wrote:
> 
> If you take a look at
> 
> http://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/doc/
> 
> You'll see that basically all manuals for packages are under the
> "Miscellaneous Libraries" category. A small part of this is because
> the authors don't know how to use the other categories, described
> here:
> 
> http://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/doc/raco/setup-info.html?q=getting-started#%28idx._%28gentag._4._%28lib._scribblings%2Fraco%2Fraco..scrbl%29%29%29
> 
> However, I think the majority of the reason is that the existing
> categories are not appropriate for packages like compiler-goodies,
> glob, GLU tessellation, etc.
> 
> I've just pushed a commit that allows arbitrary strings to be used as
> the categories. These categories are then sorted and put before the
> "Miscellaneous" category on the documentation page. Over time, I
> expect that we will discover common categories worth coordinating on
> (for instance, do we have "Graphics" and "3D Graphics" as separate
> ideas?) Here's an example:
> 
> (define scribblings '(("openal.scrbl" () ("Audio"))))
> 
> I briefly considered enabling a manual to be in many categories and
> writing a tag-style interface, but instead went with this smaller
> first cut approach.
> 
> Please make use of this feature.
> 
> Jay
> 
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