MIPP and SRT

We've decided to use FNAL's Software Release Tools (SRT) to manage releases, packages, and the build system. SRT is used by several experiments (CDF, D0, BaBar, MINOS).

SoftRelTools support at FNL is now the responsibility of Bruce Greenway.

Installation and importing an offline release

Installation Guide

Getting Started

Work needed here to get MIPP software is a state where this is relevant... (some user BABAR experience)

Documentation

The complete SRT manual is here. SRT is a system to help manage independent development of software packages. It works on top of cvs, although some cvs commands are still needed. Developers as each site work from a common set of base releases. These base releases can either be tagged (eg. release 'R01.02.03') or simply the most current (ie. "development"). The base release contains a complete set of the software (include files, libraries, executables) which developers can compile and link against. Software development is done in "test releases". Each developer has their own test release that they work in. A test release need only contain a small subset of the packages that a developer is working on. The test release references the base release for the missing packages.

SRT also simplifies the writing of GNUMakefiles and coordinates the build process.

The basic srt commands you'll need are:

newrel -t base dir Create a test release in directory dir using the release base as the base release.

srt_setup -a Setup SRT to use the current directory as the test release.

addpkg -h package CVS checkout the module package and add it to the current
test release
The -h flag say to grab the "head" version (most up-to-date) of
the package from the cvs repository.

Trouble shooting

Not much experience to report.

Questions, comments to: messier@huhepl.harvard.edu

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newrel -t base dir		Create a test release in directory dir* using the release base as the base release.*
srt_setup -a		Setup SRT to use the current directory as the test release.
addpkg -h package		CVS checkout the module package and add it to the current test release The -h flag say to grab the "head" version (most up-to-date) of the package from the cvs repository.