On Fri, 28 May 2004, Rankin, SE (Stephen) wrote:
> >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!!
OK, I thought that's what you probably meant, so how about changing:
4. Build support and support for porting to other platforms.
to something like:
4. Build support on supported platforms and help with porting to
other platforms.
maybe I'd even change "help with" to "advice on".
Otherwise I read that to mean we'd get heavily involved with the work
ourselves.
Cheers,
Peter.
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