Thanks to all for the information clarifications! Lots of good stuff going on.
John > Hello CASPERites > > SKA-SA has setup an organisation-wide homepage on github for our > open-source work: https://github.com/ska-sa > > We are slowly migrating all our existing projects off the CASPER webserver > and from our own local RCS servers. Github is to become the unified home > for all our associated projects. > > This includes: > > * ROACH-1 and ROACH-2: datasheets, schematics, layouts, gerbers, BOMs, > board support packages, manufacturing packs, testing, infrastructure > and software stuff like tcpborphserver, tgtap, uboot and other bits 'n > pieces of the ROACH system. All of them will be migrated to github with > some in new, standalone repositories. > > * mlib_devel: the CASPER Simulink stuff. There are now a number of > these forks across multiple organisations. SKA-SA has a fairly stable > fork because this is the one we use for production work (KAT-7 and > MeerKAT development). While it doesn't have all the newest Matlab stuff > (xblocks, for example), it generally does have the latest ROACH-related > stuff. So if you've got a new ROACH2 board, you probably want to use > this fork rather than the casper-astro one. New users to the CASPER > tools should use the standard github.com/casper-astro/mlib_devel. > > * CORR (the correlator control package, including katcp_wrapper) is now > on github. > > * SPEAD (the Python SPEAD reference implementation) source code. > Migrated from Simon's personal github account. > > * KATCP: Both python and c-based source code should move to github. > > * There are also some new (read: not yet ready for public consumption; > YMMV) projects on the go too, like the new MyHDL flow. > > The pypi packages will continue to be released periodically for katcp, > spead and corr, as before. Consider these stable releases, which is what > you'll get if you do easy_install katcp, for example. The stuff in github > is under active development and YMMV on the bleeding edge. > > Most of the Wiki pages still point to the now redundant SVN and GIT repos > on the Berkeley servers. As we come across these, we'll fix 'em. Feel free > to help with this if you spot one! For now, you'll have to manually look > in these github repos. To be crystal clear: github is now the > authoritative source for all things ROACH related, not the Berkeley > servers. > > Jason > > > > > > On 31 Jan 2012, at 18:47, G Jones wrote: > >> The casper libraries have been migrated to github. I always find this >> most easily by googling casper-astro github which gives this link: >> https://github.com/casper-astro >> >> Glenn >> >> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:56 AM, John Ford <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all. What is the official blessed version of the casper libraries? >> There is a git repository at: >> >> git clone git://casper.berkeley.edu/git/mlib_devel.git >> >> Is that the right one to use, or is there a later version? >> >> John >> >> >> >> > >
