From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jan 15 18:50:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA20883 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 18:50:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (root@po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA20877 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 18:50:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from baud.eng.umd.edu (baud.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.183]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA05248; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 21:50:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by baud.eng.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA01616; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 21:50:31 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: baud.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 21:50:30 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@baud.eng.umd.edu To: John Fieber cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports status / category quandry In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------