From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Aug 8 13:24:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21006 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 13:24:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net ([209.118.174.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21001 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 13:24:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA14816; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 15:22:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 15:22:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@picnic.mat.net To: Narvi cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More category breakup : devel In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Narvi wrote: > > As the x11 category got broken up and divided into parts (at last! I > alreaady thought my eyes would never see it. Seems it was not "beyond > rescue" after all), how about breaking up devel aswell? > > Why devel? It is one of the big categories, it is one of the "useful" > categories, it is one of the categories that can (IMHO) be rationaly > broken up into parts. > > ----- ------ > > The proposal: > > corba -> CORBA ORBs. > debug -> tools and libraries which are meant for debuging programs > devel-libs -> general purpose development libraries, wrappers for other > languages. > devel-cross -> crossplatform development tools > devel-build -> makes, ides, bulders and friends. > devel -> all other general development tools, etc. > ----- ----- > > Ideas? Comments? Commits? Flames? I like it! I sure wish the perl (p5) things had there own real category (not a virtual one) but this is great! Devel is definitely getting overgrown. > > Hope this time around the idea of breaking up devel goes through... > > Sander > > There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - > all these are just illusions. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message