From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Nov 22 04:09:26 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA02983 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 04:09:26 -0800 Received: from silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU [136.152.64.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA02969 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 04:09:18 -0800 Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.9) id EAA03464; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 04:09:09 -0800 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 04:09:09 -0800 Message-Id: <199511221209.EAA03464@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Proposal 4: new category "www" From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As per Paul (that's pst)'s request, I think we should make a new category "www". I'll drop my idea of "net-www" or whatever, it occurred to me that "news" and "mails" are subsets of "net" too, and we aren't calling them "net-news" or "net-mails". :) I prefer "www" over "web", it's clearer what it means and I know nobody likes to pronunce it, but hey it's spelled "www" but pronounced "web". :) Also, given the fact that there are half a zillion "www.foo.com" but only a few "web.bar.com"s, I don't think it's any doubt which is the more accepted acronym (ok, "web" isn't an acronym in the first place, but you get the idea). I think the following can form the initial membership of this new (but already big) category: Mosaic, apache, cern_httpd, cern_linemode, chimera, gn, lynx, netscape, netscape2, tkWWW, wn, wwwish, zircon (from "net") ashe, tkHTML (from "editors") weblint (from "devel") I'm not sure about "gn", as it's both a www and gopher server, but I think it's fine to put it in "www", people looking for it should have no trouble finding it here, no? Satoshi P.S. Looking through /usr/ports/net, I notice there are quite a few ports pertaining to (1) network video, (2) gopher, and (3) file transfer but I don't think any of them warrant a new category yet.