From owner-freebsd-ports Sat May 6 5:29:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC83A37B9FB; Sat, 6 May 2000 05:29:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id FAA70135; Sat, 6 May 2000 05:29:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 05:29:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: Trevor Johnson , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: category for xdrawchem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 6 May 2000, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > * 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? ;) > > 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 believe there was broad consensus to at least move the chemistry ports out of biology. Whether these go into a catch-all general "scientific" category which covers chemistry/physics/geology/anything else which shows up, or we create individual chemistry/physics/geology/etc categories, is another issue, I guess, although I think there DOES need to be an "everything else" scientific category, because otherwise at some point we'll have to again categorise a port inappropriately when it doesn't fit into one of the existing disciplinary areas (which is currently the case for the chemistry ports wrongly categorised as "biology"). Should a "scientific" category be created, as I think it must, it would be defined as only being appropriate for ports which don't have a more specific category. In other words, even though lang ports are part of computer science are part of science, they match the lang category first and go there. Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message