Bill, I just saw the page http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/axiom--test--1/src/algebra/FrontPage
This ROCKS! Nice work. Being able to create/update axiom online would be great because it would make the modification task "embarrassingly parallel" in most aspects. It will, of course, make my life of integrating it all a living hell but it would be worthwhile anyway. There are still a lot of "quality" tasks that go on behind the scenes. I document changes, update the CHANGELOG, rebuild from scratch, hand check the testcase output, cross-build on various platforms, and "round-trip" the changes (checkin, erase, checkout, rebuild, retest) before release. And finally the release gets pushed to all three archives (arch, savannah, sourceforge). I don't see how these tasks can be performed in parallel. I do feel they are necessary to make sure the quality stays high. Every step is there because it eliminates some problem that has bitten me in the past. We need to think about ways to merge a web-based changes to the official archive. How do you see this happening? Would it be possible to do a diff -Naur archive.version web.version >web.version.patch for changed files? The "diff -Naur old new" is my primary tool. Tim _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
