From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jan 18 17:32:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from catalyst.sasknow.net (catalyst.sasknow.net [207.195.92.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A96B237B402 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:32:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by catalyst.sasknow.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0J1XQB01712; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:33:26 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) X-Authentication-Warning: catalyst.sasknow.net: ryan owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:33:26 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson X-X-Sender: ryan@catalyst.sasknow.net To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XML category In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020118192542.N647-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> 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 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote to Ryan Thompson: > Ryan Thompson writes: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote to ports@FreeBSD.ORG: > > > Does anybody else than me think we should have a separate category > > > for XML-related ports? > > Before I answer that... How would you define ``XML related port''? > > XML DTDs and catalogs, and XML processing tools or libraries. > There are about 60 or 70 such ports in textproc by my count, and an > unkown number spread around in devel and java, and possibly www. > Some of those (like java/xalan) should move, while others (like > www/p5-AxKit) should just have "xml" tacked onto their CATEGORY. I am not convinced that we need an xml directory in ports, but, based on the numbers you've given here, there are a significant number of XML ports. So, a virtual xml category might be somewhat useful in that case. - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message