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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:24:47PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 16:49 +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
> >
>
> Looks fine.
>
> >
> > 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
> >
>
> How about we throw them all in contributed, and move files across as we
> test?

:-)

That's what I did, although I moved a few of them to 'supported'
already since we're working actively on those.

Should it be 'contrib' or 'contributed'? The latter is more in line
with 'supported' and 'deprecated' but 'contrib' is a common term for
this kind of stuff.

--
Anders