Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 22:23:00 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports status / category quandry Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970115221128.264q-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970115214945.2239E-100000@baud.eng.umd.edu>
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On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Chuck Robey wrote: > > 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. No. That would be like putting the perl5 port in the database category because you can use it in a database project. There is overlap between text processing and printing applications, but putting equating the two is a serious classification error. A printing application might make use of SGML, but SGML is *not* a printing application by any stretch of the definition. It doesn't belong in printing any more than ispell or recode does. -john
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