Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 15:24:00 +0200 From: Anders Nordby <anders@fix.no> To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: suggest new "ftp" category Message-ID: <19990705152400.A54538@totem.fix.no> In-Reply-To: <199907051212.FAA07459@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami on Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 05:12:52AM -0700 References: <19990704122603.A96646@dragon.nuxi.com> <199907050317.UAA99681@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <19990705082645.A47628@totem.fix.no> <199907051212.FAA07459@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 05:12:52AM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > * But programs like downloader, wget, lftp and pavuk downloads through http > * as well as ftp. Some of them are not DESCRibed as ftp programs either. How > * about a filetransfer category instead, or net-transfer? If we were to sort > * out all programs in their own categories by protocol, we'd have a lot of > * them. Though if we sort them out by their basis functionality it'd be > * easier. > Easier for who? I think clear-cut categories are easier for users to > find stuff than general "let's put this and this here so we'll have > more numbers" type categories. (Same goes for irc/icq vs. chat.) > > Not that I'm saying "filetransfer" is too generic, but "ftp" is too > nice to pass up. We can always add "www" as a secondary category for > those who speak both. Easier for the ones looking in the FTP/ports tree directly, which isn't cross-indexed. Like, curl, which is categorized to both net and www, but which is only in the net dir. If someone was looking for something to get some files off a web-site, would he go looking in the ftp dir if it was placed there? -- Anders Nordby ^ anders@fix.no ^ http://anders.fix.no/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19990705152400.A54538>