From owner-cvs-all Wed Nov 20 14:16:26 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1025F37B401; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:16:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.qc.uunet.ca (mail1.qc.uunet.ca [198.168.54.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90C3F43E42; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:16:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anarcat@espresso-com.com) Received: from xtanbul.studio.espresso-com.com ([216.94.147.57]) by mail1.qc.uunet.ca (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id gAKMG1Z25661; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 17:16:02 -0500 Received: from anarcat by xtanbul.studio.espresso-com.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18Ed8L-0001nz-00; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 17:15:45 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 17:15:45 -0500 From: The Anarcat To: Peter Jeremy Cc: Kris Kennaway , Akinori MUSHA , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors chapter.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook book.sgml Message-ID: <20021120221544.GA5439@xtanbul.studio.espresso-com.com> Mail-Followup-To: Peter Jeremy , Kris Kennaway , Akinori MUSHA , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200211180932.gAI9Wsk5074770@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021118164406.GC19355@xtanbul.studio.espresso-com.com> <20021118185511.GG12906@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20021120203840.GA52271@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021120203840.GA52271@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu Nov 21, 2002 at 07:38:40AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2002-Nov-18 10:55:36 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:44:06AM -0500, The Anarcat wrote: > >> How does the new multimedia category relate with regards to graphics > >> and audio? > >> > >> Will ports (e.g. mplayer) be moved around to accomodate that > >> definition? > > > >Yes. The 'graphics' category in particular is becoming overstuffed > >with movie players - it should now be used only for ports which > >manipulate or create graphic images. > > Depending on your definitions of "manipulate" and "graphic image", > this would seem to include MPEG encoders/decoders (like movie > players) - a movie is a sequence of graphic images which need > substantial manipulation (just ask any CPU) to convert them to or > from a binary data stream. Well, mplayer also does audio decoding, and that's why I think it belongs to multimedia... Same with ffmpeg-like ports. > >As with many categories, I expect there will be a few 'grey area' > >ports, which will be handled on a case-by-case basis. [Interesting comment about greyness of the categories] I do agree we need more splitting but this is a highly sensitive area. Everyone knows everything in these areas, and we all know where this can lead us. I don't have any clear suggestions, so I'll just take myself out of this flamewar as an advanced warning sign. :)) A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message