[6954] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Digital Unix binaries in sipb locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhpower@MIT.EDU)
Tue Aug 11 18:39:28 1998
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:39:19 -0400
From: mhpower@MIT.EDU
To: mwhitson@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[6953] in SIPB bug reports"
> - Build the software and put it in sipb, with the
>understanding that it's not really supported
I think it's simplest for users if programs commonly found in the
sipb locker aren't located in a different locker on unsupported
platforms. We don't have any way of notifying everyone who has access
to a Digital Unix machine with an afs client that they need to look
under outland; because of this, I believe the outland choice would
result in fewer users benefiting from your work than otherwise would.
I believe that users will understand that the support level for
Digital Unix is very likely intended to be different from
Sun/SGI/Linux/NetBSD because they both don't see any Alphas in public
clusters and didn't obtain Digital Unix Athena software from sipb.
Matt
