Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 13:29:32 -0400 From: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> To: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@bayouhome.net> Cc: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: category for xdrawchem Message-ID: <3914567C.3FB872D4@glue.umd.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005060124260.50060-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <vqc1z3gx7hx.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <20000506110845.A1276@gforce.johnson.home>
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Glenn Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 04:06:50AM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami > wrote: > > > * From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> > > > > * 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. I know this adds more layers and complexity to the ports tree, but... Make a 'scientific' category with sub-categories for the various "basic" sciences, like bio, chem, physics, etc... Then, since a port can have multiple categories, a biochem port would be categorized as both bio and chem. On the other hand, the 'scientific' category doesn't have to be there if no one minds having a seperate category for each of the sciences. -Brandon -- bfoz@glue.umd.edu "Lead, follow, or get run over" "In life there are those who steer, and those who push" "I'm not impatient, the world is too slow" "Life is short, so have fun, play hard, and leave a good looking corpse" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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