Re: [gentoo-dev] New category for Lua related packages
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org wrote: On 08:09 Tue 02 Nov , Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: On 11/2/10 4:24 AM, Rafael Goncalves Martins wrote: I think that a first step should be create a new category, maybe called dev-lua, for all the Lua related stuff. Just checking: how many packages would be in the new category? In case anyone was wondering, I wanted to check how many packages typically showed up in a category. Here's a histogram of the distribution. The number of packages are in column 1, and the number of categories having that many packages are in column 2 (bin size 10, number shown ±5). To summarize, half the categories have 10-50 packages, then there are a number of huge ones. If you can get at least 15 packages, it's a reasonable starting point for a new category. 5 5 15 19 25 15 35 21 45 14 55 9 65 7 75 10 85 9 95 2 105 7 115 1 125 4 135 4 145 1 165 1 185 4 195 1 205 1 215 1 225 1 245 2 255 1 265 3 295 2 345 2 355 2 375 1 485 1 545 1 985 1 Hi Donnie, thanks for the stats. I'm just wondering if it's worth add the packages now, before create the new category, and have more packages to fix when creating the new category. Best regards, -- Rafael Goncalves Martins Gentoo Linux developer http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/
Re: [gentoo-dev] New category for Lua related packages
To summarize, half the categories have 10-50 packages, then there are a number of huge ones. If you can get at least 15 packages, it's a reasonable starting point for a new category. I wouldn't have a limit like 15 on it. My first thought for checking Lua is looking in /usr/portage/dev-lua It is a behavior exactly as people would expect. I would go for it Include my +1 ;-) Kfir
Re: [gentoo-dev] New category for Lua related packages
On 11/2/10 4:24 AM, Rafael Goncalves Martins wrote: I think that a first step should be create a new category, maybe called dev-lua, for all the Lua related stuff. Just checking: how many packages would be in the new category? Generally sounds good. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] New category for Lua related packages
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 04:24, Rafael Goncalves Martins rafaelmart...@gentoo.org wrote: I think that a first step should be create a new category, maybe called dev-lua, for all the Lua related stuff. +1. Cheers, Dirkjan
Re: [gentoo-dev] New category for Lua related packages
On 08:09 Tue 02 Nov , Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: On 11/2/10 4:24 AM, Rafael Goncalves Martins wrote: I think that a first step should be create a new category, maybe called dev-lua, for all the Lua related stuff. Just checking: how many packages would be in the new category? In case anyone was wondering, I wanted to check how many packages typically showed up in a category. Here's a histogram of the distribution. The number of packages are in column 1, and the number of categories having that many packages are in column 2 (bin size 10, number shown ±5). To summarize, half the categories have 10-50 packages, then there are a number of huge ones. If you can get at least 15 packages, it's a reasonable starting point for a new category. 5 5 15 19 25 15 35 21 45 14 55 9 65 7 75 10 85 9 95 2 105 7 115 1 125 4 135 4 145 1 165 1 185 4 195 1 205 1 215 1 225 1 245 2 255 1 265 3 295 2 345 2 355 2 375 1 485 1 545 1 985 1 -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com pgpEGXSCT9Rv3.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] New category for Lua related packages
Hi all, as said in my blog post [1], I'm planing to improve our support to the Lua [2] programming language, adding packages for the libraries and the related software. Actually we already have some libraries on the tree but they are spread in some categories like dev-lang and dev-libs. I think that a first step should be create a new category, maybe called dev-lua, for all the Lua related stuff. Are any of you against the creation of this new category? [1] http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/en-us/post/lua-libraries-on-gentoo/ [2] http://www.lua.org/ Best regards, -- Rafael Goncalves Martins Gentoo Linux developer http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/
