Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!samsung!rex!uflorida!cs.fau.edu!theo From: theo@cs.fau.edu (Theo Heavey) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Repository of AI source code Message-ID: Date: 9 Dec 90 02:34:48 GMT References: <33874@joshua.athertn.Atherton.COM> Sender: bbs@cs.fau.edu (Waffle BBS) Organization: Florida Atlantic University Lines: 26 > >It would be extremely useful to have access to an archive of source code > >for common AI problems. Such an archive could contain simple planners, > >parsers, frame-based representations, and commonly used algorithms. This > >would encourage sharing and discourage reinventing the wheel. > > Instead of a central archive, have a central index. That means that > one machine does not have to store all the source, etc. It just needs > to store an index and "how to get" instructions from all the various > sites listed in the index. > > This has been successfully done on rec.games.frp, where someone keeps a > list of electronic resources and how to use them. It is posted every month, Wouldn't it be more efficient to keep this "index" at an anon ftp site? This would reduce the amount of repostings of the entire "index". If the moderator (if there is one) on rec.games.frp just listed the new sites for information via anon ftp as they are introduced I think it would be a lot more helpful. Theo Heavey Florida Atlantic University Dept. of Computer Science Boca Raton, FL Internet: theo@cs.fau.edu