On Wednesday 25 April 2007 03:43, Tanja wrote:
It (in my mind anyway) describes exactly what it is... a software library or a collection of software that end-users can browse and select applications from.
I mentioned before as one of candidates term "software collection". which is the same as "collection of software" that you used here as explanation for software library, so it seems to be very self descriptive. "Software collection" is applicable to any type of items, any size and any medium, because people are used to "collection of cars" and "collection of stamps", "collection in the museum" and "collection in the book". Collections have catalog and can be obtained via different channels.
well, for me at least, the term "library" might also be confused with "program libraries" - so similar problem as the possible confusion between "installation sources" and "source code" some people mentioned here before...
I would have better chance to confuse "software library" with "program library" than "program source code" and "installation source". The second seems to be overblown as it can happen only if one talks about "installation source for program source code" and try to excessively cut corners, by using only word source. BTW, "Installation source" originally was "Source of installation" which was clumsy shortend "Source of installation software" which is exact -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-doc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-doc+help@opensuse.org