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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 21 2010, Harish Narayanan wrote:

> On 8/21/10 2:53 AM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > Would it good to split the platform files into 'supported' and
> > 'contributed'? We can test 'supported' platforms (recent, widely used
> > recent OSs that we really want to work), but still allow users to
> > contribite.
>
> I think this is a good idea. But how do you arrive at the list of
> 'supported' ones? Just any that someone is willing to maintain?

I suggest that we support platforms for which we have a willing maintainer, 
and that we identify platforms that are important to support (and then 
delegate responsibility). For the most actively developed OSs, active 
Dorsal development is good because the range of distribution packages is 
increasing continuously. (For Fedora, I've been able to reduce the number 
of packages significantly - Fedora now even provides MPI-enabled SCOTCH as 
a package.)

Garth

> The problem historically has been that there is only one person checking
> things, and he gave up on running multiple virtual machines just to test
> Dorsal a long time ago.
>
> Harish