Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 08:08:06 +0900 From: "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@iDaemons.org> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/ipcheck Makefile Message-ID: <86ofuq4vft.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: <200103242119.f2OLJZ306536@vic.sabbo.net> References: <no.id> <200103242119.f2OLJZ306536@vic.sabbo.net>
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At Sat, 24 Mar 2001 23:19:29 +0200 (EET),
sobomax wrote:
> > I don't think we are going to put all the Perl5 script ports into the
> > perl5 category...
>
> It is not such definitely clear for me. Having all ports written in
> the same scripting language grouped into some virtual category does
> have advantages. For example, this could help to indentify extension
> modules available.
It depends. Not all ports written in the same scripting language
necessarily belong to the language's category. Carrying it to
extremes would make the category too much bloated and useless. I'd
rather keep finished products separated from a toolbox and materials
when the products no longer need to be extended with them.
> After all, we put some things into x11 category just because they are
> using x11 protocol (for example xterm, which essentually is a terminal
> emulator, and as such belongs to sysutils or misc) but nobody disagre
> with this.
Please read the Porters' Handbook again.. "misc" is the category for
the ports which do not belong to any other non-virtual categories
excluding lang-specific categories, and "sysutils" is the category for
"system utilities".
XTerm is "X Terminal", thus it would definitely belong to "x11"
together with rxvt and eterm, _only if_ it existed. Nobody complains
about a non-existent port. ;)
> Maybe it is better to introduce some more fine-grained language specific
> virtual categories, i.e. {p5, py, ruby}-apps, {p5, py, ruby}-modules and
> so on.
I think most users would care less as to what language an app is
written in, so long as it's not strongly bound to a specific language.
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