Re: [gentoo-dev] Revised: net-www break-up list

[Stuart Herbert]

Hi Grant,

Thanks for the feedback.

On Thursday 08 July 2004 15:50, Grant Goodyear wrote:
> Here's some additional changes/comments:
>
> dev-python quixote is a web framework, so it should really go into
> www-something (www-apps, I suppose, but it's really a framework, not
> an app).

I'm a strong believer that dev-<lang> is the place for language-specific 
frameworks.  www-apps really is not the place.

> Also, I know that liquidx would like to start moving apps
> written in python out of dev-python into more useful categories, so in
> that spirit we should really move mod_python and skunkweb (neither of
> which are python _development_ tools) into more relevant categories.  I
> gather that skunkweb is also a python web framework, so it should go
> wherever quixote ends up, and I would think that we would probably want
> a category for apache modules (which would give mod_python a home).  All
> that said, I'm hardly a web expert, so I'm willing to let the experts
> make the decisions here.

I think that things like mod_python, mod_php, mod_mono are not clear cut.  
Personally I like the arrangement we have with PHP, where mod_php lives in 
dev-php.  That seems very natural and intuitive.  I would prefer mod_python 
to live in dev-python for now for the same reason.

I believe that skunkworks, like quixote, belongs in dev-python, as it is a 
language-specific framework.  Developers who need it can easily find it, and 
users who need it will have it automatically installed as a DEPEND or RDEPEND 
as appropriate.

If dev-<lang> isn't going to contain the language runtime, and isn't going to 
contain the application frameworks for the languages, there seems little 
point in maintaining the dev-<lang> categories at all.

Best regards,
Stu
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