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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 04:49:16PM +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> On 8/21/10 4:34 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I will do it. Before which, I'd like to classify existing (future)
> platforms into the following. I'll start, others can modify it.
>
> deprecated (will be removed):
>
> bigblue
> etch
> fedora10
> fedora11
> gutsy
> hardy
> intrepid
> jaunty
> tiger
> opensuse11.1
> rhel4
> xp
>
>
> supported:
>
> lenny        (by whom?)
> sid          (by whom?)
> fedora12     (by whom?)
> fedora13     (by whom?)
> fenics       (harish)
> karmic       (by whom?)
> lucid        (by whom?)
> maverick     (by whom?)
> leopard      (by whom?)
> snowleopard  (harish)
> opensuse11.2 (by whom?)
> opensuse11.3 (by whom?)
> rhel5        (by whom?)
>
>
> contributed:
>
> gentoo

Sorry, didn't see this until I pushed a fix.

I've added deprecated now also. Most platforms are now in
'contrib'. We can go ahead and move them into 'supported' as we go
along (or deprecated).

Shouldn't 'bigblue' be in 'contrib'?

--
Anders