From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sat Jul 18 03:09:41 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37E7735BF44 for ; Sat, 18 Jul 2020 03:09:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauamma@gundo.com) Received: from mail.gundo.com (gibson.gundo.com [75.145.166.65]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B7tJN30SWz3VpW for ; Sat, 18 Jul 2020 03:09:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauamma@gundo.com) Received: from webmail.gundo.com (variax.gundo.com [75.145.166.70]) by mail.gundo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A26A14C111F for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2020 22:09:38 -0500 (CDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 03:09:38 +0000 From: Pau Amma To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: RFD: proposed new (likely virtual) category, education User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.4.1 Message-ID: <342ff706e1eb34f7283e24107fd03ded@gundo.com> X-Sender: pauamma@gundo.com X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4B7tJN30SWz3VpW X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of pauamma@gundo.com designates 75.145.166.65 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=pauamma@gundo.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.84 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.89)[-0.890]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RWL_MAILSPIKE_GOOD(0.00)[75.145.166.65:from]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+a]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-ports@freebsd.org]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.82)[-0.820]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[gundo.com]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.27)[0.270]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED(-0.20)[75.145.166.65:from]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7922, ipnet:75.144.0.0/13, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 03:09:41 -0000 This category would comprise ports that are mainly educational in nature or purpose, such as: - course-writing or course-delivery applications, - classroom or school management applications (eg, scheduling classes), - applications, utilities, or games primarily or substantially designed to help the user learn a specific topic or study in general, like typing tutors, flashcard applications, or educational games. This category would be useful because some of these applications are in non-obvious categories, making them hard to find if you don't already know about them. For instance, if I had not already known about anki or mnemosyne, I don't think it would have occurred to me to look for them under games. Based on a search of the port tree for the strings "educat" and "learn" and weeding out obvious false positives, the following 72 ports appear to belong in that category: astro/marble astro/nightfall biology/figtree biology/py-scikit-bio cad/basicdsp cad/feappv cad/logisim comms/gtkmmorse deskutils/docear deskutils/fet devel/elfkickers devel/raylib devel/thonny emulators/edumips64 games/anki games/colobot games/crashtest games/crrcsim games/gcompris-qt games/kanagram games/katomic games/nimuh games/py-mnemosyne games/robocode games/robocode-naval games/tuxmath games/tuxtype graphics/geomview graphics/libreatlas japanese/kiten japanese/slimeforest lang/kturtle math/R-cran-LearnBayes math/analitza math/geogebra math/geonext math/kalgebra math/kbruch math/kig math/kmplot math/octave-forge-ltfat math/rocs math/timbl math/ump misc/artikulate misc/kdeedu misc/kgeography misc/klettres misc/ktouch misc/kwordquiz misc/lingoteach misc/parley misc/pauker misc/py-orange3-educational multimedia/projectx net/ns3 print/jabref science/fisicalab science/kalzium science/libccp4 science/py-qspin science/step sysutils/hourglass textproc/popup textproc/py-nltk www/efront www/ilias www/ilias6 www/moodle35 www/moodle37 www/moodle38 www/moodle39 Observant readers will notice that there are 10 misc/* ports in that category. I do not, however, know whether that is enough to justify making it a physical category with all the additional work involved. Things that would need to be changed if that proposal is accepted: - The Makefiles for all these ports - The section on port categories of the Porter's Handbook - Possibly other things I'm missing All comments or constructive criticism gratefully accepted.