Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 10:24:43 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: torstenb@tlk.com, coredump@nervosa.com, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/libwww - Imported sources Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960308102045.404C-100000@ginger.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199603081257.EAA20992@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Fri, 8 Mar 1996, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * I meant: it's only usefull for people who want to develop a www application > * with this particular library. > > I know what you meant. The "www" is the keyword there. > > * autoconf, bcc, bison and so on are not useful for "Joe FreeBSD user" - that's > * why they are in the "devel" directory... > > No, they are there because they are develpment tools and also don't > fit into any other category. The libwww port is both a development > tool and a www-related package. And as I said before, when there are > two or more categories that a port belongs to, the "catch-net" > category wins -- like japanese, russian, and www. The point (In my opinion) ought to be, where would your average user, trying to find such tools, be most likely to look for them? I see the examples of autoconf, bcc, and bison; these are purely for development, I think someone would go looking in ports/devel. For the graphics stuff, whether of not it's a lib, they would expect to find it under graphics. Likewise, most people looking for WWW tools are going to look into the www section, regrdless of whether it's a library or not. This hasn't anything to do with dictionary definitions, and this isn't a software categorization problem. This is about causing the most people the least amount of headaches. I think Satoshi is right here. > > Satoshi > ========================================================================== Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2 Three Accounts for the Super-users in the sky, Seven for the Operators in their halls of fame, Nine for Ordinary Users doomed to crie, One for the Illegal Cracker with his evil game In the Domains of Internet where the data lie. One Account to rule them all, One Account to watch them, One Account to make them all and in the network bind them.
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