Addons/Categories

Addon Categories

Addon categories are the top-level folder names under ~addons. Several names are pre-defined, as below:

name	description
api	Application programming interfaces
arc	Archivers, files, zips etc.
convert	Conversions
data	Database
debug	Debugging aids
demos	Demos
docs	Generation, conversion, retrieval of documentation
finance	Financial
format	Formats, rendering and reports
games	Games
general	General-purpose utilities
graphics	2d, 3d graphics and planar graphs
gui	GUI utilities
ide	Integrated development environment
labs	Lab scripts and most lab texts
math	Mathematics
media	Images, sounds, audio/video processing
misc	Miscellaneous utilities
net	Communications, Sockets and other ports
profiles	Startup profiles
sockets	Socket programming
stats	Statistics
tables	Spreadsheets, CSV, etc.
types	Representations of dates, numerals, currency
web	Web programming

Other Category Names

Categories for new addons should be chosen to match and reflect the meaning and purpose, especially avoiding the general category when a more specific category exists.

For addons installed from github, the category name can be the github username.

The following category names are reserved:

• config is for addons configuration
• J top level folder names bin, system, tools should not be used to avoid conflict with those names.

Please contact jal AT jsoftware DOT com if you are unsure which category best matches your addon.