Index: openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/cvs-guidelines.html =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/cvs-guidelines.html,v diff -u -r1.4.2.1 -r1.4.2.2 --- openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/cvs-guidelines.html 14 Jan 2007 04:20:10 -0000 1.4.2.1 +++ openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/cvs-guidelines.html 22 Apr 2007 10:21:55 -0000 1.4.2.2 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
OpenACS docs are written by the named authors, and may be edited by OpenACS documentation staff. -All OpenACS code is available anonymously. To get code anonymously, use the parameter -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot immediately after cvs in a cvs command to check out or export code. @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ cd CVSROOT emacs avail
Add an avail line of the form:
avail|username|openacs-4
cvs commit -m "added commit on X for username" avail
If you are actively developing a non-core package, you + User yournamehere
into your ~/.ssh/config file, then you can use -d :ext:cvs-server:/cvsroot instead of -d :ext:cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot. You can then change the definition of cvs-server by changing one file instead of editing hundreds of CVSROOT/Repository files.
If you are actively developing a non-core package, you should work from the latest core release branch. Currently this is oacs-5-3. This ensures that you are working on top of a stable OpenACS core, but still allows you to commit feature @@ -68,13 +68,13 @@ Inventory and Package maintainers and status for a list of available packages and their current state. -
If you are actively developing packages in the OpenACS Core, work from the HEAD branch. HEAD is used for active development of the next version of core OpenACS. It may be very buggy; it may not even install correctly. Do not use this branch for development of non-core features unless your work depends on some of the HEAD core work. To check out HEAD, omit the - -r tag.
To check out HEAD for development, which requires an OpenACS developer account:
cvs -d:ext:cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot checkout acs-core
To check out HEAD anonymously:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot checkout acs-core
+ -r tag.
To check out HEAD for development, which requires an OpenACS developer account:
cvs -d:ext:cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot checkout acs-core
To check out HEAD anonymously:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.openacs.org:/cvsroot checkout acs-core
.LRN consists of a given version openacs core, plus a set of packages. These are collectively packages together to form a distrubution of .LRN. F .LRN 2.0.0 sits on top of OpenACS 5.0.0. @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ mv dotlrn/install.xml ..
Once you have a checkout you can use some commands to track what has changed since you checked out your copy. cvs -n update does not change any files, but reports which changes have been updated or locally modified, or are not present in CVS. -
To update your files, use cvs update. This will merge changes from the repository with your local files. It has no effect on the cvs.openacs.org repository.
All OpenACS code resides within a single CVS module, openacs-4. (The openacs-4 directory contains code for all versions of OpenACS 4 and later, and .LRN 1 and later.) Checking out this module retrieves all openacs code of any type. For convenience, subsets of openacs-4 are repackaged as smaller modules.
acs-core contains only critical common packages. It does not have any user applications, such as forums, @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ project-manager-all contains the packages required, in combination with acs-core, to run the project-manager package.
Each OpenACS package (i.e., directory in openacs-4/packages/) is also aliased as a module of the same name. -