Re: MACHINES, FEATURES, etc.

[Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 29 May 2018 09:34:55 +0100
Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> MACHINES is never going to be complete, because we're relying on
> reports of problems from the field, but it is intended to be accurate
> and useful, which it isn't at the moment.  It could probably be
> truncated to a note saying it's a placeholder for reports of issues
> in installation that need to be worked around --- which do get
> reported now and then --- and a request for updates.

Here's a possible short version --- I've included the entire file.
It's largely to encourage people to report problems they find
(though usually configuration problems we find out about tend
to get fixed).  I'm assuming the OS-specific information that was there
is too ancient to be of any use.

I deleted a paragraph about upgrading gcc with the OS as it's irrelevant
if gcc comes with the distribution and the days of needing to install
gcc separately are largely numbered.  I also changed the set of machines
I think are "reasonably well covered" nowadays.

pws


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