Shibboleth Developers

[Will Norris <>]

On Nov 8, 2005, at 1:35 PM, Steve Olshansky wrote:

> Following up on the conversation we had on yesterday's dev call, I  
> have put up a
> strawman page with links to the tools used and required. This was  
> prompted by
> the request by the Deskzilla folks for us to link back to them. I  
> note that
> Deskzilla is a commercial product for sale, the only one on the  
> list. Does this
> set a weird precedent?
>
> Ultimately the goal is to remove the Deskzilla link from the main  
> shib page,
> probably too close to looking like advertising...
>
> Comments and suggestions welcomed and encouraged. Currently not  
> linked from
> anywhere:
>
> http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/shibboleth-tools.html


I guess I'm confused on the reasoning for the page.  If we want to  
describe what is *actually necessary* for setting up a development  
environment for hacking on shibboleth, I think a decent little wiki  
page would be appropriate.  Where it is very standard (and sometimes  
limitedly supported) to use a particular tool (ie. apache or IIS),  
then that should certainly be mentioned.  Sure people need a CVS  
client to access the latest code,  
but                                                                      
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
           why do we really care what CVS client people use (among  
other things)?  Listing every tool that we *like* or somebody uses  
seems kinda weird and unnecessary.  But that's just my thought, for  
what it's worth.


--
Will Norris
Information Technology
The University of Memphis