Trove reference

Hello,

For my understanding, I was wondering how the Trove tree
behaves. 

Is it a free tree, where people
will add branches and leaves with no particular rule, or
does it have
some rules (like unique leave names for instance) ?

I've seen that leaves were added from time to time, but is
this a
categorization that just concerns PyPI, or are we going to
stick to
Sourceforge one for instance ?

The link that is located in PEP 301 is dead: http://tuxedo.org/~esr/
trove/
and I can't find anything related on the web. All forges
have their
Trove maps but I couldn't find a RCF or something, that
would define
a common map or describe its behavior.

Thanks 
Tarek
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:38:34AM -0800, Tarek Ziadé
wrote:
> The link that is located in PEP 301 is dead: http://tuxedo.org/~esr/
trove/

It's moved to <http://www.catb.
org/~esr/trove/>.  That's a draft
dating from 2002, though; there's no more 'official' spec.

--amk
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> For my understanding, I was wondering how the Trove
tree behaves. 
> 
> Is it a free tree, where people
> will add branches and leaves with no particular rule,
or does it have
> some rules (like unique leave names for instance) ?

It's free tree, yes.

The major rule is that we won't add new classifiers in
advance, i.e.
without an actual need. My personal view on "actual
need" is that
there must be at least two packages that would be classified
under
the classifier, or else it is pointless having it.

I personally don't view the trove as a tree at all (and had
a
hard time understanding why you were referring to it as a
"tree" -
classification/taxonomy are words that I would have
understood
better - I still don't see why the leaves would play a
special
role, as any leave can become an inner node at any time).

Regards,
Martin
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