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[Axiom-developer] Re: list of developers


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Subject: [Axiom-developer] Re: list of developers
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 06:23:41 -0500

> Bill Page wrote:
> 
> Tim,
> 
> The "Developers List" at
> 
>   http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/axiom
> 
> still shows only you as a developer. Should I expect to
> see the other three people (including myself) in this list?
> Is this necessary before I can get full access to CVS?
> 
> I have made some first attempts to access the axiom cvs
> repository. I can certainly view it via the web with no
> problem. But I don't seem to be able to use :pserver: access
> (at least not from where I am working for the next 2 days -
> behind a rather strick firewall). I'll try this again from
> home on Thursday.
> 
> I have also set up and registered an SSH key. I understand
> it takes some time to become effective. It is not working
> yet, but I will try again later today.

Bill,

Being on the developer's list will give you write access which we're
really not ready for yet.  People will be added to the list when we've
figured out the rest of the machinery and how we are going to
communicate. And we need to decide areas of responsibility so we don't
clobber each other's code as CVS does not support locking.  Besides,
at the moment there is nothing to modify. We need to filter the first
few changes thru me until I'm sure developers understand the system.
It is a big system and simple changes can have widespread
consequences.  One of the parts we need to get working is a regression
test tree.  That used to be wired into the makefiles but only for the
final algebra. We need to do much more thorough testing.

I'm working on adding developers to the write list on tenkan where I
prototype work and things are much more relaxed as the work is not
publicly available. We can freely damage things there while we work
out the bugs of interacting. Unfortunately the root guy is at a lisp
conference in san fransisco until wednesday.  I'll let you know
further details as soon as I know.

However, you should be able to have read access. Try:

cvs -z3 -d(yourUserId)@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/axiom co axiom

it should prompt you for your RSA key. If it isn't prompting you
for the key you might have generated a key without using the 
-t rsa1 option. It won't let you login but it will let you do 
a checkout. If this doesn't work let me know and we'll debug it.
Be sure to write down whatever you do to fix it as you may be
the first one with the problem but other developers will certainly
fall into the same trap.

As for communications, I succeeded in setting up AIM on linux.
My screen name is gnuaxiom (axiom was either taken or too short).
If you can't get AIM running lets pick a common instant message
platform so we can improve communications. I'd like to figure out
how to log the message streams so we can share the experience but
so far I don't see how to with this client. If I had the cycles
I'd grab the source and hack it in but that's pretty low on the
long list. I'm generally available after about 5pm EST.

I checked further into the CCL source code you found. It might build a
running CCL (I didn't try) but it is missing the files necessary to
support Axiom. The benefit of playing with that file might be that you
learn to build CCL using their makefiles.  This could be good as
you'll know the details of running it under cygwin and windows,
neither of which I can test but both of which it would be nice to have
running.  The down sides are that the makefiles are different and it
won't run Axiom.

Tim




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