the best category

[Greg Lewis]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:24:51PM +0400, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> Herve Quiroz wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:51:38PM +0400, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> >> What do you think, what is the best primary category for
> >> http://quintanasoft.com/dumbster/?
> >>
> >> mail - since a simple fake SMTP server
> >> devel - since it's a test unit for developing
> >> java - since it's java class for java application
> >>
> >> What preferred primary category for java libraries?
> > 
> > It can't be 'java' as the port is neither a JDK nor a system library or
> > tool. 
> 
> But there are many jakarta libraries there.

They went in before we adopted that policy.  IMO the java top level
category is bogus and should just go away.  One day Herve and I are
just going to move everything except the JDKs out.

Anyway, from the categorisation section of the Porter's Handbook:

"The java category shall not be the only one for a port. Save for ports
directly related to the Java language, porters are also encouraged not to
use java as the main category of a port."

So please don't make 'java' the main category.

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