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

On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 15:40 +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> 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?
> 

I would prefer separate directories - that would make it very clear for
us and users which are supported and which are not. We can focus on
making sure that all platforms in 'supported' are working, and over time
shift files form 'supported' to 'contributed'.

Garth


> Harish