From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jan 15 19:31:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id TAA23862 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:31:11 -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 TAA23857 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:31:08 -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 WAA05887; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 22:31:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by baud.eng.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA02349; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 22:31:05 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: baud.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 22:31:04 -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: > 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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------