From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jul 25 02:13:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA27441 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 02:13:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA27429; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 02:13:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA14105; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 19:13:06 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980725191259.04365@welearn.com.au> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 19:12:59 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Tim Vanderhoek Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, andy@icc.surw.chel.su, tg@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/converters/ptoc References: <19980725025918.A22475@ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <19980725025918.A22475@ca>; from Tim Vanderhoek on Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 02:59:18AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 02:59:18AM -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > Does ports/converters/ptoc strike anyone other than me as being in > like, a totally wrong category? > > devel, yes, but why converters? Maybe because its description mentions "converter" four times: "This is yet another ANSI/Turbo Pascal to C/C++ converter together with BGI graphics library emulation for X Window System..." > It's probably not supposed to be in x11, either. > > [The thing is a Pascal compiler!] It looks very similar to p2c, which is only found in lang, while ptoc is in lang, devel, converters and x11. I'd expect to find the one wherever I found the other. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message