[RFC] New category proposal, i18n

[Thomas Abthorpe]

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On June 19, 2009 03:07:53 am Johan van Selst wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > You've probably already covered this, but are you making a distinction
> > between ports that are used to _do_ localization-related tasks, and
> > ports that are localized versions of existing ports?
>
> I think that this is an important distinction; and personally I would
> expect only the previous ports to go into this category. That is,
> putting ports into categories primarily based on the functionality of a
> port. For example when looking for a port like firefox-i18n, I'd expect
> to find it in the www/ category, rather than an i18n/ subdir. But ports
> like gettext or other localization tools could be in the i18n category.

That is esseintally what I hope to achieve, i18n/l10n ports in misc get moved 
to this new category, all others keep their original home, and extend their 
CATEGORIES to include the new name.

Similarly gettext and other related tools could have their CATEGORIES updated 
as well.

>
>
> Ciao,
> Johan

Thomas


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