From owner-freebsd-ports Sat May 6 14:47:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (smtp10.atl.mindspring.net [207.69.200.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 953C337BCAB; Sat, 6 May 2000 14:47:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca7-07.ix.netcom.com [209.109.235.7]) by smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA06331; Sat, 6 May 2000 17:46:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.6.9) id OAA94747; Sat, 6 May 2000 14:44:13 -0700 (PDT) To: Glenn Johnson Cc: Kris Kennaway , Trevor Johnson , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: category for xdrawchem References: <20000506110845.A1276@gforce.johnson.home> From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 06 May 2000 14:43:38 -0700 In-Reply-To: Glenn Johnson's message of "Sat, 6 May 2000 11:08:45 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: Glenn Johnson * 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. Ok. The only concern I had is that people said there are many ports that could belong to both chemistry and biology. (Maybe I read the discussion wrong and it was chemistry and biochemistry.) My chemical/biological education pretty much ended at high school so sorry if I'm totally out of clue with this. (But where does organic chemistry fit? I mean, stuff like ADP and ATP.) Anyway, it seems people think chemistry (inc. biochemistry) is nicely separated from biology so I'll create the category if I don't hear any objections in the next couple of days. As for "science", it can still be created as a catch-all category which will become the parent of astro, biology, chemistry and math when we go to multi-levels, but are there still enough ports to put in there if we create "chemistry"? Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message