From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 28 10:42: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 49C3537B40B for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:42:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 75365 invoked by uid 100); 28 Sep 2001 17:42:01 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15284.46697.666469.442953@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 12:42:01 -0500 To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which Ports are what In-Reply-To: <101611947@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gary W. Swearingen types: > Mike Meyer writes: > > The perl section of the ports is programs/modules *written in* > > perl. > That strikes me as an odd way to categorize software. Actually, it's a very useful category. If I were still a perl developer, having all the ported Perl modules in one place is a good thing. Likewise, if I want to do X in a perl program, having one place to look for ports that almost do X is a good thing, as I can then cut-n-paste then edit that code it to get what I need. Just to be inflammatory, one of the reasons I no stopped writing Perl is that in Python, you're far more likely to be able to import-n-inherit then override methods in that code to get what you need. > I suppose some people don't want Perl on their system and having > the Perl programs integrated with the mainstream (ie, compiled?) > programs causes some kind of problem for them. Isn't there some > way to solve those problems while allowing the Perl programs to be > integrated so people can see them in the regular categories? As Dan mentioned, ports can be in multiple categories, so it's already been done. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message