Update port: www/screem 0.8.2 -> 0.10.1, repo copy www ->
editors and some clean up
John Merryweather Cooper
john_m_cooper at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 31 10:41:25 PST 2004
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 10:20, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 13:06, John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 09:59, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 12:56, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:25:54 +0200, Kirill Ponomarew <krion at FreeBSD.org>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 03:19:47PM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> > > > >> With www/peacock maintainer's hat on:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> OMG why??
> > > > >
> > > > > Because these *are* editors, doesn't matter what formats they
> > > > > can edit. The main purpose of this software is to edit
> > > > > something.
> > > >
> > > > I second!
> > >
> > > I third. Their primary purpose is an editor. They should be
> > > cross-referenced to www. That way, all the indexing tools will still
> > > show them in both categories.
> > >
> > > Joe
> > >
> >
> > Well, once you've got a committer on your side, I'm going to lose, but I
> > think the organization structure of the tree needs some serious
> > consideration if we're heading in this direction.
>
> My opinion certainly isn't law. I agree that the tree does need some
> work, and probably some dedicated resources to do cataloging. Portmgr
> is working on a new tree layout, so it's probably good to leave things
> where they are for now. However, if I was adding an HTML editor, my
> first thought would be, "editors."
>
> Joe
Making this a more useful thread, our we headed toward a taxonomy that's
more functionally oriented or more descriptively oriented? Whichever
direction we're headed, what are the guidelines--stated clearly enough
so a new port author can traverse the guidelines and come up with a
placement--that are proposed?
jmc
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