[Axiom-developer] Re: [AxiomDownload]

[Ralf Hemmecke]

Hello Bill,

On 04/18/2006 05:42 PM, Bill Page wrote:
> 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".

Sorry for all the confusion that was introduced by my update of 
http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/AxiomDownload, but you see exactly this 
confusion should be resolved.

No, I would not call the CVS stuff "gold". We have blessed the gold and 
silver branches already. Let's call it "diamond". ;-)

Anyway, please let's make it completely clear what the release cycles of 
the various archives are. Otherwise nobody knows which source archive is 
good for which thing.

> 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.

Well, I am actually also waiting for Gaby to post some more details 
about the process of how the development model for Axiom should be.

> 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.

I know, and I also want to concentrate this to just one place, but we 
first should have a clear develepment model which includes a description 
of silver, gold, diamond or whatever.

Please let's reduce all this confusion. Suppose you are new to Axiom 
knowledgable in CVS and you want to contribute code to axiom. You look 
at FrontPage. AND THEN???

Ralf