[Axiom-developer] RE: [AxiomDownload]

[Bill Page]

Ralf,

I believe that it is/has been Tim Daly's procedure to first
update the tla archive, as and when patches are applied but
to only promote the code to CVS after more thorough testing - 
about once every two months or so.  The same CVS is available
at both Savannah and Sourceforge, with sourceforge as a backup
site. So the tla archive is not always in synch with the CVS.
The tla archive is more current but less tested. Right, Tim?
Perhaps we should only call the CVS "gold". 

I am not sure (yet) what we should say about the "silver" svn
version since it still seems highly experimental to me - at
least until we have an active maintainer of this version. As of
Tim's most recent patch-49, the code of the source in svn is out
of date.

Note that detailed information about how to use arch is available
elsewhere on the wiki at

http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/ArchUsage

although I guess it doesn't hurt to duplicate it a little.

Regards,
Bill Page.


On April 18, 2006 10:40 AM you wrote at

http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/address@hidden
iom-developer.org

>  
> ++added:
> +  * There are several ways to access the sources of Axiom:
> +
> +    * The CVS and tla archives are identical and refer to 
> the Golden release of Axiom, i.e. the latest stable release.
> +
> +    * The SVN archive refers to the Silver release, i.e. 
> this is the branch which is updated more often, but might be
> +    not so stable. Approximately every two months stable 
> code moves from Silver to Gold.
> +
>    * The current Axiom source distribution is available via
>      CVS at:
> 
>      * http://sourceforge.net/projects/axiom/
> ++added:
> +
> +  * A tla archive (GNU arch) can be obtained via::
> +
> +      tla my-id "Your Name <address@hidden>"
> +      tla register-archive address@hidden 
> http://www.axiom-developer.org/archive/axiom
> +      tla my-default-archive address@hidden
> +      tla get axiom--main--1 GoldenAxiom
> +
> +      # later you would say the following in order to update
> +      cd GoldenAxiom
> +      tla update
> +
> +  * An svn archive (Subversion) can be obtained via::
> +
> +      svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/axiom/trunk SilverAxiom
>