I yesterday threw together a RubySection page in the wiki. Now I
wanted to hear thoughts if we should add one for every group of ports
where we have some implicit policy of how to add ports and if you like
the idea at all.

I think of them to state how ports are handled in a certain
special-interest section: wether to add them at all or rather use
package managers (like gem, eggs, pear, cpan) and point users there,
who the interested maintainers for a certain section are, and other
topics which would fit here.

Another question that tends to come up regularly is the one after
dealing with new releases, and how different versions are kept
available (executable suffices, or *_select symlink configuration).
Another question might be the one after implementions (at least for
Ruby case). All these things are not really well suited for main
documentation and are quite well kept in wiki. That way they can
evolve more easily as well. Parts might also end up being taken into
core docs if they establish enough.

I would see at least PythonSection, and PerlSection, but there are
probably many others which might make sense. Do I overlook some other
place where such information is kept? What do you think?

Florian

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