Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:48:58 -0000 From: "Peter Jeffery" <peterj@mister-j.dyndns.org> To: "Henk van Oers" <henk@signature.nl>, "Zhihao Yuan" <lichray@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Ports Infrastructure Changes Message-ID: <op.vsslnf05oxde33@pete01.gateway.2wire.net> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim5Lf31sJH634sb976xDsekg53jQmvenYcuR9dq@mail.gmail.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103192316110.84574@dee.signature.nl> <AANLkTim5Lf31sJH634sb976xDsekg53jQmvenYcuR9dq@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:26:45 -0000, Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> wrot= e: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Henk van Oers <henk@signature.nl> wro= te: >> >> From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org> >> >> Matthias Andree p=ED=B9e 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"? IO= W, >>>> 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. I would say that although it is correct to say that something like Opera= is all of those things you should think about the main way in which the application is perceived. If I was looking for the Opera port, I'd look in www-clients and if it = wasn't in there then the next thing that I would be doing is hand searching the= = INDEX file, because I'd have no idea where else it might be. I shouldn't need to know its full in depth feature set just so that I ca= n = find it to install it. > 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.o= rg" >>
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