Hi again,
Dear all,
released Collozeum projects should be easily accessible via Mogul. I
have no experience with Mogul releases yet. The process is described
at http://www.mozart-oz.org/mogul/node8.html#chap.contrib, but I
recall earlier posts here which described certain problems like that
it was meanwhile hard to get a Mogul ID (couldn't find the email
anymore..). Could someone just summarise recent experiences? Filip?
from my point of view the current process is rather complicated. The
problem is that the MOGUL librarian actively downloads the libraries
from some host sites. So this is (as Denys said in the past) the
pull-model, and requires that the contributors maintain public web sites
with the libraries (I use a free public web host) and also there must be
an admin that assigns mogul IDs (currently probably Denys again).
I think that the better way would be hosting the libraries at a common
place, like gforge, and re-writing the librarian to support the push-model.
More specifically, what should be the mogul root id for Collozeum
projects? Should every Collozeum contributor become registered at
MOGUL and get a MOGUL ID? Or would it be sufficient (for now at least)
if only Collozeum is registered as a meta author, and further authors
are then just listed with their names as strings instead of MOGUL IDs?
IMHO, it would suffice if the project got a meta id. You would just need
to ensure that the contributors adhere to some common license.
If you want, I can show you the build makefiles that I use for creating
the distribution packages. Once created, the distribution packages must
be uploaded to the web host that the MOGUL librarian knows of and from
which it will download the new versions during the nightly runs.
Where should release files be stored? I assume it would be best to use
the Gforge release mechanism for storing file releases and just
telling ozmake/MOGUL where to find these.
You need to make the files accessible via http, so if you can do this
within Gforge this would be probably the best option. My idea of the
process is that each contributor maintains her package(s) and uploads
just those packages to the repository, as needed, not touching the others.
Cheers,
Filip
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