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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/21/10 2:07 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> It seems that we're all happy with the supported/contributed
> distinction, so could we split the supported and contributed files into
> separate directories?
> 
> Garth
> 
> On Aug 21 2010, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> 
>> On 8/21/10 4:34 AM, Anders Logg wrote:
>>> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:19:01AM +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:23:10PM +0100, 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> Garth
>>>>
>>>> That sounds like a good idea to me.
>>>>
>>>> Dorsal could write a warning for contributed platforms that they may
>>>> not work.
>>>
>>> I guess it would also be good to list who is maintaining each of the
>>> supported platforms so we know who to blame when things break.
>>
>> Or who to direct support queries on the mailing list to. I can
>> maintain/support Snow Leopard (64-bit) for now as it is my primary OS.

Would it be easier just to add a boolean flag to the packages?

Harish