I just got back from a meeting with Steve Selkowitz and Kostas Papamichael at LBNL, and I'll summarize the plans we're making in a post to radiance-general in a few days. One of the subjects we discussed was the next Unix Radiance release, which we'd like to schedule for the beginning of March. I suggested that we make this release coincide with OpenSource code availability via CVS. I have a few questions related to this:
1) Is this release date doable?
2) Has Peter A-B got his site ready, or will it be ready by the end of the month to hold the source tree?
3) What changes do I need to make on my end for this to work? (E.g., eliminate symbolic links, change build procedure, etc.?)
4) Are we going to have mirror sites at radsite.lbl.gov and radiance-online.org? Mirroring what?
I would prefer to make as few source tree changes as possible prior to the release, to facilitate the reincorporation of code modifications other developers might wish to contribute to the new release. It also seems that a single CVS site is the way to go, with mirrors set up for the official release and binary tarballs.
Thoughts on these issues?
-Greg
Greg Ward wrote:
I just got back from a meeting with Steve Selkowitz and Kostas
Papamichael at LBNL, and I'll summarize the plans we're making in a
post to radiance-general in a few days. One of the subjects we
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That's very good news!
1) Is this release date doable?
2) Has Peter A-B got his site ready, or will it be ready by the end of
the month to hold the source tree?
Yeap. will be mid Feb.
3) What changes do I need to make on my end for this to work? (E.g.,
eliminate symbolic links, change build procedure, etc.?)
As far as I see, none directly related to the new source side or its
mechanisms.
I would prefer to make as few source tree changes as possible prior to
the release, to facilitate the reincorporation of code modifications
other developers might wish to contribute to the new release.
Y
seems that a single CVS site is the way to go, with mirrors set up for
the official release and binary tarballs.
maybe we want to start with a single CVS and set up a mirror at radsite
as second step, maybe around May this year.
-Peter
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Greg Ward wrote:
3) What changes do I need to make on my end for this to work? (E.g.,
eliminate symbolic links, change build procedure, etc.?)
Eliminating symbolic links would be a simple step towards Windows
portability, without any detrimental side effects that I can see.
-schorsch
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