Peter,
>This is the only point that made me stop for breath. Not sure I'd want to
>be asked to support porting to a platform I've no access to, or interest
>in, unless there was a strong evidence it was genuinely useful to more
>than one person. There's also the point that this would probably mean
>porting much of the other infrastructure too (mostly down at High). So I
>think logically this would need to be left at the same level as Best
>Efforts.
With cvs and autoconf, you can bet that someone will try to build it on
other platforms. We could try to help them port the software, but only in
the sense that we could point them in the right general direction and give
them the benefit of our experience. I would take Brad porting our software
to Mac OSX as a good example.
There is always the possibility that people in the community could all move
to other platforms we do not yet support, then we would have to port our
software ourselves!!
Steve.
-----Original Message-----
From: Starlink development [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Peter W. Draper
Sent: 28 May 2004 16:18
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Subject: Re: Release INFO
On Fri, 28 May 2004, Rankin, SE (Stephen) wrote:
> Here are my definitions of the support level categories; I will include
them
> with the news file, if every one likes them.
>
> Little/None:
OK.
> Best Efforts:
> 6. No new documentation or documentation updates.
Except for bug fixes.
> High:
Good, so most of the collection currently rated unconditional now falls
into this category.
> Unconditional:
>
> 4. Build support and support for porting to other platforms.
This is the only point that made me stop for breath. Not sure I'd want to
be asked to support porting to a platform I've no access to, or interest
in, unless there was a strong evidence it was genuinely useful to more
than one person. There's also the point that this would probably mean
porting much of the other infrastructure too (mostly down at High). So I
think logically this would need to be left at the same level as Best
Efforts.
Peter.
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