From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 18 15:14:52 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F529106564A for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:14:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thomas@goodking.ca) Received: from mail-qy0-f173.google.com (mail-qy0-f173.google.com [209.85.221.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E5208FC20 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:14:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thomas@goodking.ca) Received: by qyk3 with SMTP id 3so1459238qyk.3 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:14:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.53.211 with SMTP id n19mr1412697qag.197.1245338091556; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:14:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from goodking.goodking.ca (dynamic-216-211-59-31.tbaytel.net [216.211.59.31]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 39sm3337806yxe.47.2009.06.18.08.14.47 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:14:48 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Thomas Abthorpe From: Thomas Abthorpe Organization: FreeBSD.GoodKing.Ca To: ports@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:14:43 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 X-Face: /|[9, PbEOB6g>?2^*Sc|"~6:Ro"O>Nv\Rfkv\42g)TuAYG&+bD\pCJTX31s_p{c7]5a.D. Y@QddKu_I[XB8; euK=^[=L1I#]rgi[0jgz^4qCTwlj]3kJ)]vc}O"HrA14hN)aXewJPTi| Pt{S3#Vw4x-"/:& Cc: Subject: [RFC] New category proposal, i18n X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:14:52 -0000 I would like to propose a new ports category, i18n, it would become the new home, physical or virtual, for ports that are i18n or l10n based. While researching the topic, I found the two terms, i18n and l10n, are often used interchangeably, and while either word could be used as the new category name, I chose i18 because it seems to keep in line with the efforts of freebsd-i18n team. Currently in the ports tree there are about 220 ports with i18n or l10n as part of their package name. Of these ports 159 are in the misc category, virtually all of which are related to KDE or Qt. Should this new category come to being, the self identified ports in misc would get relocated. All other ports would simply be extended with the new virtual category name. Taking off my KDE hat, this new category could obviously be used by anybody who is involved some sort of translation effort. As per the Porters Handbook, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-categories.html#PROPOSING-CATEGORIES, I hereby open discussion on the matter. If there is enough interest, I will pursue the matter further with portmgr@ Thank you for you time, attention and feedback. Thomas -- Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Committer tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe