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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/21/10 4:59 PM, Anders Logg wrote:
> 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'?

In contributed, yes.

Harish