RFC - new category dev-tinyos [was: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC - new category dev-tos]

[sanchan <sanchan@gentoo.org>]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Saturday 14 January 2006 13:41, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> Why stuck on "tos" -- Just spend the other 3 letters and make it tinyos
>> at least, so people can figure out what it actually is.
> 
> indeed, it'd still be smaller than dev-embedded :)
> -mike

Actually proposed name for the category:

dev-tos: original proposed name

dev-tinyos: better than dev-tos, and still shorter than dev-embedded ;-)

dev-embedded: leave the 20 ebuilds in dev-embedded or try to fit them in other
existing categories (maybe some packages can be moved to

sys-tos or sys-tinyos: in order to go with sys-fbsd

dev-toyos or dev-alternateos: in order to allow minix and co. to be placed here.

Personally I prefer to keep TinyOS related ebuild in the same category. Having
tossim and tinyviz (the emulator) in app-emulation, and all the sub library
needed by tinyviz in dev-java may be confusing for tinyos users.
But it can be done.
TinyOS tarball includes lots of apps. Shipping them splitted in a lot of ebuilds
may be proibitive without a dedicated category. But I can choose to ship them in
a single ebuild, move the ebuilds into existing categories and get rid of
dev-tinyos.
-- 
Sandro (Sanchan)
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