From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Sep 6 13:49:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ns11.rim.or.jp (ns11.rim.or.jp [202.247.130.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54F7014DF6; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:49:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from masafumi@aslm.rim.or.jp) Received: from rayearth.rim.or.jp (rayearth.rim.or.jp [202.247.130.242]) by ns11.rim.or.jp (8.8.8/3.5Wpl2-ns11/RIMNET-2) with ESMTP id FAA22686; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 05:47:12 +0900 (JST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by rayearth.rim.or.jp (8.8.8/3.5Wpl2-uucp1/RIMNET) with UUCP id FAA18665; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 05:47:11 +0900 (JST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.aslm.rim.or.jp (8.9.3/3.5Wpl3-SMTP) with ESMTP id FAA19511; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 05:47:02 +0900 (JST) To: vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca Cc: max@wide.ad.jp, cpiazza@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/textproc/rand - Imported sources From: Masafumi NAKANE In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 5 Sep 1999 22:02:16 -0400" <19990905220216.B70327@mad> References: <19990905220216.B70327@mad> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.93 on Emacs 20.3 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) X-PGP-Fingerprint: 00 D8 2C CA C7 75 D4 40 5C 34 39 BA A5 46 C0 CC Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19990907054700C.masafumi@aslm.rim.or.jp> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 05:47:00 +0900 X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Lines: 32 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I agree with your opinion on pagers. But does rand do any ``processing?'' I think the problem is the defnintion of the word ``process'' is somewhat vague. I have no problem with putting all the sgml/xml stuff in the textproc category, but other than that, it's never clear to me what are the criteria which make a program fall into this category. Additionally, the existence of the converters category is making it even more confusing to me. The converters/pkg/COMMENT says it's a category for ``character code converters'' while it includes uuencode/decode related stuff, which makes the definition of the phrase ``character code'' vague. Well, I know this is irrelevant with rand, but I believe this relates to the unclearness of the textproc category definition. Cheers, Max >> > Import of rand, a cat-like utility that displays the lines of a file >> > or stream in random order. >> >> If this belongs in textproc, less and most (and probably a few others) >> should be in this category as well, or vice versa, I believe. > I'm not sure I agree. Pagers (less and most) don't really _process_ > text. Well...at least, I don't think they do. They're closer to > editors than textproc, imho. > -- > This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message