Categorize open-source libraries in OpenModelica for different uses

[OpenModelica-TracImporter]

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[casella]

Original track ticket: https://trac.openmodelica.org/OpenModelica/ticket/5726

[casella]

The categorization is now available in the OMPackageManager, see https://github.com/OpenModelica/OMPackageManager/blob/master/repos.json, with the following categories: fullSupport, partialSupport, experimental, noSupport, obsolete.

The categorization should be reviewed before releasing 1.19.0, based on the latest coverage test results and on the latest status of libraries.

[dietmarw]

Is there any documentation resource that specifies the meaning of the categorisation?
For example if I look at a categorisation like:

"support": [
      ["prerelease", "noSupport"],
      [">=1.2.0", "experimental"],
      ["*", "obsolete"]

I'm a bit lost as to what matches obsolete here. Everything?

[casella]

Is there any documentation resource that specifies the meaning of the categorisation?

We should definitely have one in a readme.md file, currently the documentation is in the scripts source code and in @sjoelund's head 😄

I understand the items are applied sequentially, so obsolete matches whatever was not matched in the previous two items.

[casella]

Is there any documentation resource that specifies the meaning of the categorisation? For example if I look at a categorisation like:

@dietmarw, I just updated the README.md file with some information about that. Please have a look and comment if needed.

[dietmarw]

@casella This looks very good. However it would also be good to have the documentation of what "release identifiers" are allowed. The code example uses prerelease, >=...,*. Now what else is legal here? Would > be allowed and how about < and are there other terms than prerelease that can be used? To make it really clear you should list the allowed release identifiers.

[sjoelund]

@casella This looks very good. However it would also be good to have the documentation of what "release identifiers" are allowed. The code example uses prerelease, >=...,*. Now what else is legal here? Would > be allowed and how about < and are there other terms than prerelease that can be used? To make it really clear you should list the allowed release identifiers.

https://github.com/OpenModelica/OMPackageManager/blob/master/common.py#L16

> and < are not allowed.

Entries beginning with a + are allowed (to mark certain branches unsupported):

["+default.modelica.association", "noSupport"]

Other entries match verbatim.

[casella]

• Updated OMPackageManager README with the latest comment by @sjoelund.
• Update support tags to reflect the current status more accurately.