Tim,
I thought that one of the main points of doing all of the autoconf/automake
stuff was to allow people to build everything for them selves, so that we do
not have to support directly any more platforms (encourage community and
self support). I have already had requests for Tru64 stuff, and they are
quite willing to build everything for themselves, how well they will get on
with fixing stuff is another problem.
If the above is not true, then we should have stayed with the old system
which worked perfectly for us, and moved everything to CVS as is.
I am going to start building for various platforms this week, I have the
vmware system running again. I will also check the build on Solaris and
Tru64.
I will check to see how easy it is to get the individual bits needed for an
application from CVS, and then build it. I will also be looking closely at
the distribution methods for source and binary which are already in place,
at the moment I do not know what distribution methods are in place.
Steve.
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From: Starlink development [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tim
Jenness
Sent: 13 July 2004 01:33
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Subject: Re: All cvs.
I should also add that people wishing to download source tar balls should
be downloading the distribution source not the CVS source. We can't expect
everyone to install the starlink autoconf/automake tools (and we've
explicitly stated that there is no intention of doing that). The source
tar balls should simply require configure;make;make install and should
also have the .htx_tar files included so that they don't need star2html
etc.
Someone has to check the make dist targets create distributions that
can be configured. (I'm sure some of the packages will be missing files).
Steve?
Tim
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Tim Jenness wrote:
> Never? I don't really see the point of putting a tar ball of all the
> source code from applications/ etc/ and libraries/ on ftp. Seems crazy
> since most people are interested in a particular application not the
> whole source set. (the starjava tar ball has compiled code)
>
> We should be providing anonymous CVS access for these interested people.
>
> I don't think many beta testers will be interested in building the whole
> thing themselves. The mac users want a simple disk image to download.
>
> I don't think we should open up anon cvs access until
>
> 1. make world actually works (maybe it does now?)
>
> 2. We can build figaro (which is required for convert)
>
> 3. Someone has tried the build on solaris (who is responsible for this?)
>
> 4. Things at least build for us (eg init package needs some tweaking)
>
>
> Beta testers will generally want to test functionality and most won't be
> interested in porting to a new operating system. Most linux users will
> just get the standard ISO image.
>
> Tim
>
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Rankin, SE (Stephen) wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > When should I put a tar file of all the cvs on dev.starlink.ac.uk? I
think I
> > will do it now so we can point beta testers to it.
> >
> > Steve.
> >
>
> --
> Tim Jenness
> JAC software
> http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
>
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