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

On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 15:58 +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> 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.
> 

Will you create the directories? I don't know, or want to know, how to
look in two directories using bash.

Garth

> Harish