#1033322 Please create a new WebAssembly section

#1033322#5
Date:
2023-03-22 14:14:50 UTC
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I'm about to upload WasmEdge (ITP #1003128), a WebAssembly runtime.

The "wasmedge" binary package is the runtime (think JRE in Java terms),
so Section: devel is not very appropriate. I've set the source package
and the wasmedge package to Section: web for the time being, but that
doesn't feel like a complete match either.

WebAssembly[1] is an entire ecosystem, and especially with efforts such
as WASI[2] it now operates outside the confines of browsers and the web.

I think it'd be valuable to have a Section: webassembly, so that
runtimes and other software that are not strictly for development
purposes can fit in.

Thanks for the consideration,
Faidon

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly
2: https://wasi.dev/