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 * From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>

 * On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 01:15:49AM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
 * >  * I disagree unless we also make the C/C++, FORTRAN, lisp, misc-lang
 * >  * categories.
 * > 
 * > The ports categories have never pretended to be completly symmetric.
 * > Did you object when news (i.e., nntp) and then www (http) split from
 * > net while ftp is still in there? :)
 * 
 * I just don't see what is so special about Java when there are much more
 * C/C++ related ports.  The number of Java related ports aren't that many.
 * If C/C++ had its own categor first, then I could understand it.  There

Oh, you meant "C/C++ has more ports than Java"?  That I can
understand.  From your comment above I thought you meant you were
against it unless we split up lang into every programming language out
there (collecting the really minor ones into misc-lang).

Sure, we can split up C/C++ too, although I'm not sure what would be
the right category name for that.  (There are some C specific, some
C++ specific, and "C/C++" is not a valid directory name in Unix. :)

If someone wants to dive into devel+lang and find all the C/C++ ports,
I'll be very appreciative (I can't do that with a simple "grep" this
time... ;).

-PW


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