Re: Platform missing/package request feature matrix?

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 02:30:53AM +0400, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
 > >  > > I have ever see, due to missing XXX on NetBSD,
 > >  > >   * cannot packaging YYY
 > >  > >   * cannot update package ZZZ to x.y
 > >  > >   * disabled xxx feature for NNN package
 > >  > >
 > >  > > Such platform missing / package request features matrix might be a 
 > > hint
 > >  > > for improvement points of NetBSD (or pkgsrc).
 > >  > > Where should it be put? Wiki?
 > >  > 
 > >  > No! Not a wiki, please! Who is going to maintain this information 
 > > up-to-date?
 > >  > We have doc/TODO, why cannot we reuse it?
 > >
 > > I think we need to collect the data first before we can decide how to
 > > store and maintain it going forward.
 > 
 > Some data are stored in doc/TODO already.

doc/TODO is not a good place to keep long explanations.

Maybe the answer is "if a long explanation is needed, file the
explanation in GNATS and refer to the PR in doc/TODO".

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David A. Holland
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