On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:03:52PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:03:41AM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: > >Hi Daniel, > > > >We need a list of anything that might "break" an activity. > > The list of things that have to work in order for an activity > (particularly a networked one) to "work" is larger than the memory and > comprehension of any individual working on this project. It includes > nasty things like >
Is this a reasonable categorization?: kernel version dependent: > * syscall semantics system library dependent: > * availability of language interpreters > * library APIs nasty things we tend to change: > * file-system layouts > * authorization data like file-system permissions ouch!: > * statistical biases in the outcomes of non-deterministic computations > * computational complexity of default algorithms _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
