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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/21/10 5:00 PM, Anders Logg wrote:
> 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.

I prefer 'contributed'. It just looks strange in a folder with
'deprecated' and 'supported'.

Harish