From owner-freebsd-ports Sat May 6 9: 9:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.millennium20.com (smtp.thecyberguys.net [209.79.190.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67CBE37BB60; Sat, 6 May 2000 09:09:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glennpj@bayouhome.net) Received: from gforce.johnson.home (1Cust7.tnt2.covington.la.da.uu.net [63.31.31.7]) by smtp.millennium20.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) with SMTP id e46F5c327408; Sat, 6 May 2000 08:05:39 -0700 Received: (from glenn@localhost) by gforce.johnson.home (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA04125; Sat, 6 May 2000 11:09:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glenn) From: Glenn Johnson Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 11:08:45 -0500 To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: Kris Kennaway , Trevor Johnson , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: category for xdrawchem Message-ID: <20000506110845.A1276@gforce.johnson.home> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from asami@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, May 06, 2000 at 04:06:50AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 04:06:50AM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > * From: Kris Kennaway > > * On Sat, 6 May 2000, Trevor Johnson wrote: > * > * > I'm wondering what the most suitable category would be. I tried > * > asking Satoshi Asami, as Will Andrews advised, but received no > * > response. Does anyone else have a comment? > > Oops, sorry. > > * Yeah, Satoshi needs to finally create that "scientific" category so > * we can e.g. move all the chemistry ports out of biology :-) > * > * This has been discussed and agreed as a good idea at least twice in > * the past, but nothing ever came of it. > > Did we? ;) Yes, but there was no consensus and the discussion just died. > That wasn't what I thought. People were divided among chemistry and > biology (which has a lot of overlap) and I thought scientific is too > broad (astro and math are definitely science, and there's something > called "computer science" too!). I vote for a chemistry category. There is overlap in the scientific disciplines and biochemistry is a scientific discipline in its own right. However, I think most software can be categorized neatly in the traditional discipline names, like biology, chemistry, physics, etc. Even if it is decided to use 'scientific' as a category that is certainly a better description for pure chemistry programs then 'biology' is. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@bayouhome.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message