tech-pkg: Re: java category

Subject: Re: java category
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: James K. Lowden <jklowden@schemamania.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/10/2003 23:35:31

On 2003年8月10日 22:03:12 -0400, Jan Schaumann <jschauma@NetBSD.org>
wrote:
> Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > Jan Schaumann wrote:
> 
> > > How about we create a 'java' category? 
> 
> > What's wrong with 'lang' ? Adding sun-jre142/sun-jdk142 isn't really
> > problematic, is it?
> 
> No, of course not. But it seems to me that 'java' should be it's own
> category. There are quite a few applications that could belong to such
> a category which would make it easier for people to find an application.
It's not clear, is it? I've often thought the same of Perl and Python
modules. On one hand, I normally say to myself, hmm, I bet there's a Perl
module for that (or, more often, I *know* there's a perl module and wonder
if it's in pkgsrc). On the other hand, if I'm looking for some kind of
XML processor, do I care if it's in Java or Perl or C++? Not very much,
or a lot, depending on what I have in mind. 
On the third hand, I don't understand why the two-level hierarchy gets
special status. It would be nicer to be able to look for "perl modules
that do graphics" (or not). 
Anyway, Perl dominates much more than Java:
$ pwd; \
 for d in [a-z]*; \
	do printf "%20s\t%2d\n" $d \
		 `ls -d $d/p5* 2>/dev/null |wc -l` ;\
	done \
 |grep -v ' 0'$
/usr/pkgsrc
 archivers 2
 audio 4
 chat 4
 comms 4
 converters 7
 databases 19
 devel 70
 finance 1
 fonts 2
 graphics 10
 mail 11
 math 8
 misc 12
 net 17
 parallel 1
 print 1
 security 24
 sysutils 1
 textproc 46
 time 4
 www 36
 x11 2
--jkl