On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Rankin, SE (Stephen) wrote:
> The question of Linux distributions has gathered speed again on the STARMAN
> list. I was hoping that there would be a mutual agreement between the site
> managers and Starlink, but as someone pointed out to me, we have a wider
> audience to consider. So I would like to have everyone's opinion.
>
> I thought of having RHEL as the main supported and tested system. Fedora and
> Debian built distributions can be checked to see if the software builds and
> just some basic tests run.
>
> The above suggestion did not go down to well on the STARMAN list!
Hi Steve,
I don't see anything wrong with what you outline, however, from following
the STARMAN discussion it's not clear to me that the objectors have really
understood what we're offering, i.e. several binary releases, but with one
preferred one and in the longer term, please yourself. They seem to think
we're offering (or more likely imposing) one and that's it. They might
rightly want to have some say about the preferred one (which they will not
be able to agree on), so since they are having a meeting early next month,
what's the sudden hurry, let's relax and wait and make sure the message
coming from us is right.
Cheers,
Peter.
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