From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jul 12 1:50:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from metriclient-2.uoregon.edu (metriclient-2.uoregon.edu [128.223.172.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFD9F14BE4; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 01:50:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by metriclient-2.uoregon.edu (8.9.1/8.8.7) id BAA22235; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 01:47:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19990712014745.38109@hydrogen.fircrest.net> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 01:47:45 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: category for mime library... References: <19990710234549.10379@hydrogen.fircrest.net> <199907120713.AAA67901@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <199907120713.AAA67901@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami on Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 12:13:13AM -0700 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami scribbled this message on Jul 12: > * From: John-Mark Gurney > * > * well, I was just about to port/commit my mime library that I wrote > * reciently... and I was trying to decide what category to put it in... > * > * because of how it is used, it could go in either www, or mail, but > * mime doesn't have to be used for either... I did think about textproc, > * but mime isn't limited to 7bit or text... so, I was thinking that > * devel is really the best place to put it... > > converters. There already is kdesupport (which is really mimelib), > mimepp, mpack and p5-MIME-Base64 in there. geeze, I completely over looked converters, because for me: Character code converters makes me think of i18n and iso8859-1 and other things relating to the actual character set, not the encapsulation.... maybe we need a better description for this category? and thanks, I needed an answer like this... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 541 684 8449 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 "The soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it. The event is only the actualizing of its thought." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message