From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx.loginet.ro (mx.ineton.ro [217.156.27.7]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j46JbF2f031002 for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 19:37:16 GMT Received: (qmail 29088 invoked by uid 204); 6 May 2005 22:37:25 +0300 Received: from mrness@gentoo.org by hera by uid 201 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (. spamassassin: 3.0.2. Clear:. Processed in 0.08419 secs); 06 May 2005 19:37:25 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: mrness@gentoo.org via hera X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.16 (Clear:. Processed in 0.08419 secs) Received: from tg-neamt1.ineton.ro (HELO ?217.156.27.36?) (217.156.27.36) by mx.ineton.ro with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 6 May 2005 22:37:25 +0300 Message-ID: <427BC770.2070308@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 22:37:20 +0300 From: Alin Nastac Organization: Gentoo Foundation User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050504) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-libs => dev-cpp moves References: <427AE74C.6080607@gentoo.org> <427B804E.5080005@gentoo.org> <427B87FD.6070001@gentoo.org> <427B9965.80508@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <427B9965.80508@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig30E952E0F63B36840F45F780" X-Archives-Salt: 61c5e3b0-cb24-4f41-9d98-54edd19d9e7e X-Archives-Hash: 59ae0e546efdcc4889215b45b6f1ce09 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig30E952E0F63B36840F45F780 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Alin Nastac wrote: > > >Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > >>Why is language a good way to sort these? I think they should be sorted > >>by function. > > > >prolly 'cause C++ libraries cannot be used unless your program is > >written in C++. > >on the contrary, C libs could be used in whatever language you want > >(theoretically at least). > > > OK, maybe it's useful for developers. And particularly in the case of > libraries, my point may not be as relevant. But in the interest of being > consistent, it should be the same throughout. > > But as a user, if I'm looking for a database, I'd look at dev-db. I > wouldn't expect it to be sitting in dev-ruby or something because it's > written in Ruby. As a user, I don't particularly care what language > something is in. For example, darcs is in Haskell. So what? I can still > emerge it. > As you said, libraries found in dev-lib does not concern our users at all. Usually these are frameworks which various developers uses to build their apps. Since devs are much more interested by them, I would say it is best to classify from dev perspective. I don't have anything against current classification as dev-libs but it seems that it is a bit overcrowded. Maybe we should use another criteria for classification, but what would that be? It would certainly be a disaster if we choose to put lib-foo in dev-db just because mysql is build on top of it! It would overload categories that means something to users with dozens of obscure libs, without any relevance for average gentooer. IMO libs should have their categories, separate by popular packages. --------------enig30E952E0F63B36840F45F780 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCe8d0RZBYwhawvi4RAsJ2AKCd9rgRHBe+SlCkYiOcoDE+grqN8ACeKiDU H9+c9SWHgYaYgfRTNZ8WYLw= =b4hC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig30E952E0F63B36840F45F780-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list