From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jun 23 03:31:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA26834 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 03:31:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.166.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA26823 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 03:31:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA15483; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:30:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199706231030.MAA15483@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: ports/3924: de.spinne-1.0.0 In-Reply-To: from Wolfram Schneider at "Jun 23, 97 02:24:12 am" To: wosch@apfel.de (Wolfram Schneider) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:30:05 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De, FreeBSD-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Wolfgang Helbig writes: > > This is a digital circuit simulation program. > > The language of spinne is currently German. That's what the "de." > > prefix is supposed to signal. > > May be we should create the new collection ports/german? Well, I don't think that ``spinne'' allone justifies a new category. Its docs and help being German is rather a deficiency and should as such not give birth to a new collection. If this program is wanted by non German users I will translate it (as well as I can) and offer both languages to get rid of the ``de.''. The language used will be controlled by the LANG environment variable. I'd prefer a category ``computer-science'' (similar to math, astro, etc...), where ports like mixal and spinne of high educational value and little practical use :-) would find an appropiate home. There should be more spin offs from ``Programmierpraktikum'', which are part of the German computer science curriculum, and from similar classes in other countries as well. In there should be a decent Pascal interpreter, (it's still the primary notation in `Informatik' education) and may be a Turing machine or some really cute algorithm well animated. This collection could add some value to FreeBSD in schools. But for the time being, I would be happy if someone would commit this port, the mocka-95.02 port (ports/3815) and fix the xview-lib (ports/3927). (spinne is written in modula-2 and uses the currently broken xview-lib) Thanks in advance Wolfgang > > -- > Wolfram Schneider http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/ >