Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 17:15:34 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: torstenb@tlk.com Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, torstenb@tlk.com, coredump@nervosa.com, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/libwww - Imported sources Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960308171213.1653B-100000@ginger.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <m0tv4fX-00021vC@solar.tlk.com>
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On Fri, 8 Mar 1996, Torsten Blum wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: > > > The point (In my opinion) ought to be, where would your average user, > > trying to find such tools, be most likely to look for them? I see the > > examples of autoconf, bcc, and bison; these are purely for development, I > > think someone would go looking in ports/devel. For the graphics stuff, > > whether of not it's a lib, they would expect to find it under graphics. > > Likewise, most people looking for WWW tools are going to look into the > > www section, regrdless of whether it's a library or not. > > Yes, but there's a difference between libwww and the graphics stuff (tiff > and jpeg for example): graphics/tiff and graphics/jpeg are not just > libraries. These ports also install utilities who might be what joe > average user is looking for. > libwww is just the library - and someone who is looking for libwww is > not "joe average user". > > That's the point: joe average user has no usage for libwww (port dependencies > don't count, that's done automatically) [some context deleted] > I don't think that libwww in the www directory lowers the amount > of headaches for joe average user. > Most people are users not programmers. They will never think about > ports/devel... Even for pretty sophisticated users, this is going to be pretty non-intuitive. You can make justifications about the category, but the bottom line is, it's going to be harder to find libWWW under ports/devel than the much more obvious ports/www. This applies WRT either programs OR libraries. ========================================================================== Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2 Three Accounts for the Super-users in the sky, Seven for the Operators in their halls of fame, Nine for Ordinary Users doomed to crie, One for the Illegal Cracker with his evil game In the Domains of Internet where the data lie. One Account to rule them all, One Account to watch them, One Account to make them all and in the network bind them.
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