Re: Shouldn't devel/yosys be cad/yosys

[Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2024 at 02:46:45PM -0500, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2024 at 08:55:03PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> > yosys is a Verilog HDL synthesis tool. Other software of this kind, ghdl
> > for example, is categorized as cad. Wonder if yosys should have been
> > categorized as cad rather than devel.
> > 
> > In FreeBSD ports it's categorized as cad.
> 
> Too late now while pkgsrc is still in CVS.  Should add 'cad' to CATEGORIES
> though.

In general it's ok for packages that have been around for a while. But
yosys is still in its infancy - just about 6 months old in pkgsrc, in case
we want to take a call to move it.

-- 
Mayuresh