Changes between Version 53 and Version 54 of WikiStart

Timestamp:

11/06/12 18:09:21 (8 years ago)

Author:

dlove

Comment:

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WikiStart

@@ -83 +83 @@
 
 In other repos, `.jar` files have mostly been removed (especially as
-some of them were from copyleft source), and the directories for
-support of obsolete versions have been removed from `nbgui`.  This may
-affect building Java sources.
+some of them were from unavailable copyleft source), and the directories for
+support of obsolete versions have been removed from `nbgui`.
 
 The repositories are maintained under
@@ -111 +110 @@
 snapshots currently aren't made automatically, so it may not be so up-to-date.
 
-You can access the repos with Mercurial (`hg`) at the same URLs as with `darcs`, e.g. {{{hg clone http://arc.liv.ac.uk/repos/darcs/sge/}}}.  (They should probably be aliased to avoid confusion.)  You can also pull with `git`, but the relevant URL is the darcs one with `/.git` appended, e.g. {{{git clone http://arc.liv.ac.uk/repos/darcs/sge/.git}}}.  Servers aren't currently available for hg or git, so pulling may be relatively slow  Also note that pulls with git or hg leave scripts not executable — see the amended build instructions.
+You can access the repos with Mercurial (`hg`) at the same URLs as
+with `darcs`,
+e.g. {{{hg clone http://arc.liv.ac.uk/repos/darcs/sge/}}}.  (They should probably be aliased to avoid confusion.)  You can also pull with `git`, but the relevant URL is the darcs one with `/.git` appended, e.g. {{{git clone http://arc.liv.ac.uk/repos/darcs/sge/.git}}}.
+Native servers aren't currently available for hg or git, so pulling
+may be relatively slow.  Also note that pulls with git or hg leave
+scripts not executable, but the initial `aimk` fixes that.
 
 == Building ==
 
-Building the source is currently rather a pain,
-which is something to improve urgently.  With appropriate development
-packages installed — they need documenting (but see #1305) — it should build on GNU/Linux
+Building the source is rather a pain,
+which is something to improve at high priority, although there is a
+spec file for RPM-based systems which may need adjusting for non-RHEL ones.  With appropriate development
+packages installed — the list in README.BUILD below probably still needs expanding (but see #1305) — it should build on GNU/Linux
 in Bourne shell with something like this:
 {{{
 cd source
-csh aimk -only-depend && scripts/zerodepend && ./aimk depend &&
+csh -f aimk -only-depend && scripts/zerodepend && ./aimk depend &&
 ./aimk
 }}}
-(The aimk arguments are set up to default to {{{-system-libs -no-gui-inst}}}.)
-To avoid Java stuff, try:
+(The aimk arguments are set up to default to
+{{{-system-libs -no-gui-inst}}} in `aimk.private`.)  To avoid Java stuff, try:
 {{{
 cd source
-csh aimk -only-depend && scripts/zerodepend && 
+csh -f aimk -only-depend && scripts/zerodepend && 
 ./aimk -no-java -no-jni depend &&
 ./aimk -system-libs -no-gui-inst -no-java -no-jni
@@ -135 +140 @@
 necessary executable permissions, which will be missing if you pulled
 with git or hg, or didn't use `--set-scripts-executable` with darcs.
-See ticket #821 about the `--no-gui-inst`.
 
 For further information, see
@@ -141 +145 @@
 [source:/sge/source/README.aimk README.aimk] in the source tree, and
 ignore any inappropriate references to the sunsource web site, at
-least — those documents need review in the absence of a better build
+least — those documents need further review in the absence of a better build
 system.
 
@@ -197 +201 @@
 fragmentary apart from more recent items.  We have a partial
 [http://arc.liv.ac.uk/pipermail/gridengine-users/ archive] of the old -users and -dev
-lists (but mixed up, non-threaded, and currently not indexed) pending supply of
-the complete archive from sunsource.  Beware of referring to items in that archive,
-as the URLs won't be stable until we get the complete archives.
+lists (but mixed up, non-threaded, and currently not indexed).  Beware of referring to items in that archive,
+as the URLs won't be stable unless we get the complete archives from Oracle.
 
 == Copyright and Naming ==
@@ -213 +216 @@
 obviously under the original (rather odd!)
 [http://arc.liv.ac.uk/repos/darcs/sge/LICENCES/SISSL SISSL],
-except for some more-or-less ‘third party’ stuff like `qmake`.
+except for some more-or-less ‘third party’ stuff like `qmake` and
+various library code.  See the
+[http://arc.liv.ac.uk/repos/darcs/sge/LICENCES/README licences README]
+for a non-lawyer's summary.
 
 The appendix to the SISSL requires a conformance test to use names
@@ -232 +238 @@
 == Related ==
 
-As well as Univa's public repo, there's another project,
+As well as Univa's now-dead public repo, there's another project,
 [http://sourceforge.net/projects/gridscheduler/ Open Grid Scheduler],
-or ‘gridscheduler’,
-which is also continuing work on gridengine but has
+or ‘gridscheduler’, which is also continuing work on gridengine but has
 different aims.  Unlike this one, its repository doesn't use a distributed
 revision control system, doesn't include history from
 before the gridengine v6.2u5 release, existing issues, or sources from outside the gridengine repository.  It would
-be better if there was only one project, and there is now hope of
-being able to work together somewhat.
+be better if there was only one project but, unfortunately, there now
+seems no prospect of that.
 
 The `sge` source here is essentially a large superset of