Configuration Management Status
Code Management (SoftRelTools)
Jim Amundson is 4 months through a 6 month 1 FTE support for SRT with a goal
of 10% at the end of March. All of the short-term fixes that were deemed
necessary by participants in November meetings have been implemented. The
existing code is being actively updated by several people from the
collaborations. Because the existing code base is very fragile, Jim is working
on a conservative rewrite of the code base in order to make it more robust and
flexible. The rewrite is planned for the months of January and February with
debugging to follow in March. An overview of the rewrite can be found in a status report given to Run II committee on Jan 12,
1999.
Jim Amundson spent the week of December 7-12 working with CMS at CERN on
SoftRelTools. CMS has cut their first release which uses SoftRelTools. They
are also one of the collaborations actively updating SRT.
ups/upd
The current releases of ups and upd are fairly stable. The re-engineering
development team has been laid down, and the products are now considered in
maintenance by the UAS group, which has made several minor patch releases. CDF
and D0 both have working upd server configurations and new software
distribution systems, which use the new upd dependency tree install features
heavily and CDF uses "ups compile" functionality heavily. E831 is using "upp"
for automated software updates.
All known onsite installations of older ups have been upgraded, or are on
frozen systems, and the distribution server for the old upd has been turned
off.
ups and especially upd could use further development work on documentation and
desired additional functionality, but the required functionality for Run II is
implemented and is fairly solid.
C++ working group
The current releases of the KAI C++ compilers are being used successfully.
There is a great deal of interest in incorporating platform-supplied C++
compilers. The SGI C++ compiler is the one which is closest to KAI in its
current status. It is receiving the most attention at this time. The most
significant problem with KAI is the continuing problem with a satisfactory
debugging solution.
There is still significant unhappiness with the state of debuggers for use
with KAI C++. Cindy Wike is currently working with Kuck & Associates to
determine if kdb, the just-released debugger for the KAI C++ compiler, meets
the Debugger Features Required as defined by the C++ Working Group.
Purify, Insure++ and GDPro
Cindy Wike has recently been hired to work on these issues in addition to the
KAI debugger issue. She has already started participating in Purify support as
well as working with Margherita Vittone on installing the current version of
GDPro.
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