Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 11:08:45 -0500 From: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@bayouhome.net> To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: category for xdrawchem Message-ID: <20000506110845.A1276@gforce.johnson.home> In-Reply-To: <vqc1z3gx7hx.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from asami@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, May 06, 2000 at 04:06:50AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005060124260.50060-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <vqc1z3gx7hx.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 04:06:50AM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > * From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> > > * On Sat, 6 May 2000, Trevor Johnson wrote: > * > * > I'm wondering what the most suitable category would be. I tried > * > asking Satoshi Asami, as Will Andrews advised, but received no > * > response. Does anyone else have a comment? > > Oops, sorry. > > * Yeah, Satoshi needs to finally create that "scientific" category so > * we can e.g. move all the chemistry ports out of biology :-) > * > * This has been discussed and agreed as a good idea at least twice in > * the past, but nothing ever came of it. > > Did we? ;) Yes, but there was no consensus and the discussion just died. > That wasn't what I thought. People were divided among chemistry and > biology (which has a lot of overlap) and I thought scientific is too > broad (astro and math are definitely science, and there's something > called "computer science" too!). I vote for a chemistry category. There is overlap in the scientific disciplines and biochemistry is a scientific discipline in its own right. However, I think most software can be categorized neatly in the traditional discipline names, like biology, chemistry, physics, etc. Even if it is decided to use 'scientific' as a category that is certainly a better description for pure chemistry programs then 'biology' is. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@bayouhome.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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