Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 05:29:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: category for xdrawchem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005060521550.69390-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <vqc1z3gx7hx.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On 6 May 2000, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
> * 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? ;)
>
> 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 believe there was broad consensus to at least move the chemistry ports
out of biology. Whether these go into a catch-all general "scientific"
category which covers chemistry/physics/geology/anything else which shows
up, or we create individual chemistry/physics/geology/etc categories, is
another issue, I guess, although I think there DOES need to be an
"everything else" scientific category, because otherwise at some point
we'll have to again categorise a port inappropriately when it doesn't fit
into one of the existing disciplinary areas (which is currently the case
for the chemistry ports wrongly categorised as "biology").
Should a "scientific" category be created, as I think it must, it would be
defined as only being appropriate for ports which don't have a more
specific category. In other words, even though lang ports are part of
computer science are part of science, they match the lang category first
and go there.
Kris
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