[Opengrads-devel] At last, OpenGrADS Bundle v2.0.a7.oga.1 build

[Arlindo da S. <da...@al...>]

All,
  After a very busy summer/early fall, I have been able to make a 2.0.a7
build with the opengrads extensions. Although there no new extensions being
released (I have a couple in the works but not ready for prime time yet),
there have been some improvements under hood. Most importantly, I have added
a detailed unit test suite for the extensions. Here is the build sequence
after your untar:

% ./configure
% make
% make check   (to test the core grads engine)
% make gex-check (to test the extensions)
% make bundle-dist (to create tarballs for sf.net)

There a total of 75 new tests for the extensions. Some of these will say
"skipped", which means that these a place holders (a real test is yet to be
written). These tests are very important to make sure changes in the main
engine by COLA do not break the extensions.

Mike: all the tests in libmf are place holders; just enter the test code
under mf/ut.py (use the other */ut.py as examples). We also need
documentation...

Jennifer: I usually ship a full set of HTML documentation with the bundle
for those cases when you are offline and need to look something up. Lately
the doc/ directory in your tarballs have not been updated. Do you think you
could update this for "a8"?

BTW, I never released a 2.0.a6. Mike reported that it had broken his wxmap
system and we suspected the extensions were hosed. This prompt me to write
these tests, and it took me longer than anticipated.

  Let me know if you experience any problem with the build.

   Cheers!

      Arlindo

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Arlindo da Silva
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