Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 22:31:04 -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.3.95.970115222817.2239F-100000@baud.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970115221128.264q-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, John Fieber wrote: > 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. Very few of our applications *exactly* fit one category. Is there anything else like sgml? Are you asking for a one-item category? Would putting sgml in either print or misc be so misleading? The idea of categories is to make things easier to locate, there isn't any intrinsic functionality implied. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- 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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