[4541] in SIPB bug reports
Re: undocumented programs in outland....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Tue Apr 12 22:58:11 1994
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 94 22:57:46 -0400
To: rnewman@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, bug-outland@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9404130216.AA27335@al-burro.MIT.EDU> (rnewman@MIT.EDU)
You should read the outland README file:
; cat /mit/outland/README
Welcome to Outland!!!
This is Outland, SIPB's new repository of cool, neat things that
can't/won't/shouldn't/etc. go in the sipb locker. Things which the
SIPB doesn't have the manpower to actively support (and yet still
wants to offer) will appear in here. Things that are still being
tested will appear in here. Things which don't really belong in the
sipb locker will go in here.
What does this mean for you? It means that things in here are going
to be supported as well as we are able, and that we make absolutely no
guarantee that anything in this locker will work correctly, or even be
available all the time, since software may dissapear, and this locker
is not as heavily safegaurded as the sipb locker. All problems, bug
reports, comments, and requests should be sent to the mailing list:
bug-outland@mit.edu
Thanks,
Berke Breathed
(in abstentia)
The salient points here are:
a) Things are put in outland *SPECIFICALLY* becuase the SIPB doesn't
have the time/manpower/willingness/whatever to actively maintain
the software, including writing documentation for it. The case you
mention, ps2ascii, is part of ghostscript, which may be moved
somewhere else in the near future.
b) mail about outland should go to bug-outland, not bug-sipb.
Additionally, work is being done both on making random programs on
athena easier to find and on making sipb-supported lockers more
documented. In this case, though, I seriously doubt anyone is going
to write documentation for all of the stuff that comes with
ghostscript.
Please remove bug-sipb from any replies.
chad
