[Tioga-news] Tioga has a CVS repository

[Vincent Fourmond]

  Hello dear Tioga users,

  You'll be happy to hear that a CVS repository has been set up on
rubyforge; you can check it out with the following instructions (when
prompted for a password, just hit enter):

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous at rubyforge.org:/var/cvs/tioga login
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous at rubyforge.org:/var/cvs/tioga checkout tioga

 (more information: http://rubyforge.org/scm/?group_id=701). It is
mainly intended for developers, but I would be glad if some people did
test it.

  In this CVS repository, you'll find that there are quite a few changes :
  * Dtable, Dvector and Flate have been taken out of the main Tioga code
to be put in their own extension, as they are far more general than
Tioga itself.
  * to do that, we did need to switch to a more experimental
building/installing system, mkmf2, which probably will cause trouble for
building and installing (hence the need for testers);
  * we did check that it doesn't break the old code we had under the
hand, but the names of the classes did change a little:
   Tioga::Dvector -> Dobjects::Dvector
   Tioga::Dtable -> Dobjects::Dtable
   Tioga::Flate -> Flate

  If you have an unknown class message, this should help.

  * there now is a way to install the necessary things into a home
directory (for those who don't have root access on their machine, or who
wisely don't want to use it too much) -- you run the HOME_INSTALL script.

  That should be about all. When we are pretty sure that the code is
stable this way and that it works on different architectures, we'll get
a proper release.

  Cheers !

    Vincent

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