From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 25 21:30:52 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A35B1065670 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:30:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0F9A8FC15 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:30:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 19447 invoked by uid 399); 25 Jul 2010 21:30:51 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO laptop.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 25 Jul 2010 21:30:51 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:30:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton To: David DEMELIER In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) X-message-flag: Outlook -- Not just for spreading viruses anymore! OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-ports Subject: Re: ports/ languages categories X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:30:52 -0000 On Sun, 25 Jul 2010, David DEMELIER wrote: > Hello, > > I personally think that categories like french, japanese, arabic, > etc... are not the best way to write a language dependant port. Now, > there is no many languages categories in the ports tree but we can > plan that in the future more directories for the new future languages > dependant port can be added. Example : if someone write a new aspell > language that is not in the ports tree, we must create a new directory > in the ports tree ports/. > > For example: there is no ports/italian directory now, will you create > a new italian directory if we must add aspell for italian? (no it's in > textproc/it-aspell and it's confusing) For all of the literal categories (I.e., those that live in real directories) the path has always been that new things are introduced in whatever existing category is the most appropriate. Then at some point someone notices, "Hey, there are sure a lot of foo, maybe we should create ports/foo to put them all in." That suggestion goes to the -ports list, it gets discussed, if there is enough support for it then ports/foo is born and things are moved into it. Nothing about that procedure is different as it relates to the language-specific categories. hth, Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso