From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jan 18 17: 6:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E85137B47E for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:06:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 5D36D14C03; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 02:06:16 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Thomas Hurst Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XML category References: <20020119005036.GA82570@voi.aagh.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 19 Jan 2002 02:06:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20020119005036.GA82570@voi.aagh.net> Message-ID: Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thomas Hurst writes: > * Dag-Erling Smorgrav (des@ofug.org) wrote: > > Does anybody else than me think we should have a separate category for > > XML-related ports? > Not particularly; XML's usually a means to an end rather than an end > into itself, and hence a poor candidate for categorisation imo. What on earth is "a means to an end rather than an end into itself" supposed to mean, and why is it relevant to whether there should be a separate XML category? There is a large number of XML-related ports which are currently stuck in textproc for lack of a better category, but can't really be labeled as "text processing tools". One could say the same about SGML, BTW. Even for those that *do* belong in textproc, it would be useful to be able to list "xml" in addition to "textproc" in CATEGORY. There are currently 49 ports in textproc that have "XML" or "xml" in their name, plus 7 that have "XSL" or "xsl", plus at least one (textproc/xhtml) that has neither but is definitely XML-related (and installs its files into ${PREFIX}/share/xml). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message