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On Saturday 17 September 2005 02:22 pm, Mark Loeser wrote: |
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> Kevin F. Quinn wrote: |
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> >> I would also like to see many of them, if not all, moved to the dev-cpp |
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> >>category: |
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> > |
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> > Is this bit really necessary? |
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> The reason for me adding that bit is the metadata from dev-cpp: |
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> The dev-cpp category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the |
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> c++ programming language. |
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> Now to me, that means I can find *all* relevant C++ stuff here. If we |
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> don't want that to be the case, maybe we should say "miscellaneous", but |
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> why should something be in dev-libs, as compared with dev-cpp? |
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> net-libs, I could understand, and dev-games, as those could be argued to |
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> have a direct relation. |
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for generic C++ packages (STLport/boost for example), i can see them being in |
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the dev-cpp category ... but for packages which have specific uses already |
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and arent in 'generic' categories, i dont think they should be moved |
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-mike |
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