Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 14:16:16 +0100 (MET) From: torstenb@solar.tlk.com (Torsten Blum) To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: 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: <m0tv21o-00023GC@solar.tlk.com> In-Reply-To: <199603081257.EAA20992@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Mar 8, 96 04:57:44 am
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Satoshi Asami wrote: > * I meant: it's only usefull for people who want to develop a www application > * with this particular library. > > I know what you meant. The "www" is the keyword there. I don't think "www" is the right directory just because it's the most used word on the net these days. An Developer who wants to write an application using libwww will look in the devel directory first. Ports dependencies don't count because they're automatically installed > * autoconf, bcc, bison and so on are not useful for "Joe FreeBSD user" - that's > * why they are in the "devel" directory... > > No, they are there because they are develpment tools and also don't > fit into any other category. The libwww port is both a development > tool and a www-related package. yes, but only someone who wants to write an application using libwww will use it directly. > And as I said before, when there are two or more categories that a port > belongs to, the "catch-net" category wins -- like japanese, russian, and > www. catch-net ? -tb
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