Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 02:26:45 -0500 From: Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> To: Henk van Oers <henk@signature.nl> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Ports Infrastructure Changes Message-ID: <AANLkTim5Lf31sJH634sb976xDsekg53jQmvenYcuR9dq@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103192316110.84574@dee.signature.nl>
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On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Henk van Oers <henk@signature.nl> wrote: > > From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org> > > Matthias Andree pí¹e v so 19. 03. 2011 v 09:52 +0100: > [...] >>> >>> Where do you see the dividing line between web apps on one hand and on >>> the other hand "http servers ... everything related to apache"? IOW, >>> how do I decide if I put a new port into www-webapps or into www-servers >>> for its primary category? > >> Basically, everything that serves network is "server" and everything >> that generates pages on these servers is "webapp". > > So: why is p5-Mojolicious in webapp, it serves network (main deployment). > And it's a client too... Not just p5-Mojolicious. Many webapps can be web servers, like Flask. Even some unrelated packages can be www servers, like python, with SimpleHTTPServer. And some www-clients can also be www-servers. For example, opera. It's a client, server, email client, HTML-editor. You can't just *separate* things into clients, servers, apps, and misc. And also, during the development of the HTML5, there will be more and more www-client ports can be used as servers, by using web socket. The border of clients and servers will become fuzzy. We should not used a C/S model to sort these ports. That's why I suggest that to create a www-devel branch - you can determined what a software is mainly designed for, but you can not always determined what a software can be used as. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Zhihao Yuan The best way to predict the future is to invent it.help
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