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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/23/10 12:24 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 12:16 +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote:
>> On 8/23/10 12:08 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 03:08 +0000, noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> revno: 426
>>>> committer: Harish Narayanan <hnarayanan@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> branch nick: dorsal
>>>> timestamp: Mon 2010-08-23 08:36:29 +0530
>>>> message:
>>>>   Made fedora13 and snowleopard platforms look very similar
>>>
>>> Why remove the note in the fedora13 file?
>>
>> Because I am was zealously trying to make the platform files look
>> similar for easy comparison on visual inspection.
>>
>> Having long comments under the
>>
>> # ...
>> # ...
>> # ...
>> ##
>>
>> looked strange to me.
>>
> 
> Where would you like comments to go? The comments come about from a lot
> of testing, so we should keep them so that we don't go round in circles
> later.

I will think of a suitable location for a common "build
notes/problems/troubleshooting" file and drop this note in there. There
are so many lessons learnt (many of which I'd rather not be aware of, in
platforms I'd rather not have seen, hello opensolaris!) in Dorsal that
come from years of grief. They all deserve a happy home.

Harish