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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 09:51:46PM +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> 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'.

ok, sounds good.

--
Anders