[5286] in SIPB bug reports
Re: support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Apr 8 01:18:29 1995
To: yoav@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Apr 1995 06:58:48 GMT."
<199504070658.GAA00293@I-See-Everything-Twice.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1995 01:18:24 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> do we officialy support programs for NetBSD and Linux to the same
> degree as other architectures in the SIPB locker?
Yes, in general, since we are attempting to push NetBSD and Linux as
viable Athena platforms.
> This might seem silly, but it does mean that program maintainers are
> going to have to deal with not-really-athena machines that they may
> not be that familiar with. Even worse, we might get people expecting
> us to help configure the program to run in some other manner on
> their machine or such?
I think we can expect maintainers of programs in the sipb locker to be
familiar with Linux and NetBSD to the extent they need to, which isn't
all that great. Frankly, Linux and NetBSD are more "really-athena"
than, say, the SGIs, for all practical purposes. (Find me the Athena
Imakfile templates for the SGIs sometime.)
People trying to install software locally is a simple problem: the
sipb locker maintainers maintain what's in the sipb locker, not what's
on people's local machines.
