Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 21:50:30 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports status / category quandry Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970115214945.2239E-100000@baud.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970115195040.264m-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, John Fieber wrote: > After all this time, I've put together my first port--James > Clark's SP. This includes the SGML parser as a library (both > static and shared, with includes) and some applications (nsgmls, > sgmlnorm, spam, and spent). > > Two questions: > > 1) I haven't been following the freeze announcements, what is > the latest scoop on adding new ports? > > 2) This port really wants to be in a "text processing" > category. In fact, in the misc category, it has a few other lost > friends like glimpse, ispell, mgdiff, recode, rman, and trans. > Opinions on a "Text" category? "print" category, it already exists, ghostscript, gv, tex, stuff like that. > > -john > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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