Platform Certification

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We "certify" platforms for using Cobol Check and for contributing to development, so that interested parties can find out whether Cobol Check is likely to work on their setup. Any team member can certify a platform.

Cobol Check might work on a platform that hasn't been certified, if knowledgeable people tweak the setup in some way. We would like to know how to improve the distribution so that such tweaking isn't necessary in future.

Developer Platforms

A Cobol Check team member does the following:

1. Clone the Cobol Check repo
2. Run ./run clean test

Without requiring any additional setup actions, the build runs clean.

User Platforms

A Cobol Check team member does the following:

1. Download the latest Cobol Check distribution for the platform.
2. Expand the distribution archive.
3. Follow whatever instructions we have provided to users as documented.
4. Run the samples:

./cobolcheck -p ALPHA NUMBERS 

Without requiring any additional setup actions, the samples run properly.

Follow-up

If it works, update the documentation at Certified User Platforms or Certified Developer Platforms as appropriate.

If it doesn't work, try to fix things so it will work (without breaking it for platforms where it already works).