Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 02:37:18 +0900 From: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org> To: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@uol.com.br> Cc: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.ORG>, asami@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, yasuf@bsdclub.org Subject: Re: Call for a new virtual category: "ruby" Message-ID: <86vgxbwt69.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: In your message of "Mon, 7 Aug 2000 12:42:41 -0300" <20000807124240.A14734@Fedaykin.here> References: <86og37a5jc.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> <20000806175148.D343@FreeBSD.org> <86zompvqgd.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> <20000806200512.A452@FreeBSD.org> <20000807124240.A14734@Fedaykin.here>
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Hi,
At Mon, 7 Aug 2000 12:42:41 -0300,
Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@uol.com.br> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 08:04:50PM -0500, Ade Lovett wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 09:56:50AM +0900, Akinori -Aki- MUSHA wrote:
> > > Six. databases/ruby-postgres, japanese/rubytk, lang/irb, lang/ruby,
> > > x11-toolkits/ruby-gtk, and x11-toolkits/rubytk.
> >
> > Now I know there's minimal overhead in creating a new virtual
> > category, but to my eyes, 6 is somewhat on the low side.
> >
> > Perhaps we can come to some consensus on exactly how many ports
> > are needed for a virtual category.
>
> Once again this topic rises from the ashes. :)
> Not counting the language categories (ko, ...),
> we should not create virtual categories with less
> than the smallest category we already have:
> namely mbone (15 ports).
You know, virtual categories are meant to be of help to users when
they install packages, and that's all. Given that, I think we'd
better have a virtual category if it's obvious for everyone and could
be of any help. As Ade said, there is minimal overhead in creating a
new virtual category.
And as esecially for "ruby", it seems somewhat natural to me to create
it when we already have "elisp", "java", "perl5", "python", and tcl/tk
ones. I wouldn't say Ruby is as "big" as these languages here, but
I'd just doubt that the number or the "bigness" really matters.
Anyway.. as I knew well that I'd rather actually work than talk, I've
added several Ruby ports and now we have 15. Hmm, isn't it a nice
coincidence, Mario? :>
P.S.
I have some more ports ready to roll, and am planning to import
several more in the near future. Stay tuned..
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