[1825] in NetBSD-Development
Re: Netscape-3.01
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Jan 27 11:22:29 1999
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:20:50 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>, gisele@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU,
netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU, cwis-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <mtuu2xdswpe.fsf@snorklewacker.MIT.EDU>
You are assuming that there IS a Grand Scheme of Things, which, at least
in re infoagents and open Unix platforms, would be wrong :)
I add symlinks and support for Linux and NetBSD piecemeal, when one of the
various advocates for those platforms asks me to do so. I do not have a
comprehensive idea of what Linux/NetBSD platforms are well-supported in
infoagents, or even how many open Unix platforms (for want of a better
term; you know what I mean) are in widespread use in the MIT community.
I DO know that infoagents is a mess in that respect, but haven't had the
time or information to correct it; often it is difficult just to keep the
Sun and SGI support working right.
Bottom line is that I need to know:
1. which open Unix platforms are in widespread use around MIT. We can't
support everything, but we can get the most common ones.
2. What versions of Netscape will comfortably run on those platforms.
I am trying to phase out old Netscapes and old platforms, simply so that
we don't have to maintain everything on infoagents forever and ever. I
would probably have asked you for this sort of information soon anyway, in
conjunction with that.
I hope this doesn't sound hostile; it's not meant to be. Infoagents will
always have to give priority to the platforms used on workstations and
public cluster machines, but that doesn't mean we can't give the open Unix
platforms a decent break as well. I just need information.
-Todd Belton
infoagents maintainer
