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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/21/10 3:48 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> 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'.

OK, I agree and think this is a good plan.

Harish