On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote: > On 2014-10-07 19:06-0400 David Cole wrote: > >> Consider using CDash instead. It was Dart's "drop-in" replacement... >> and is actively maintained today. >> >> www.cdash.org > > > Thanks, Dave, for that information. > > In reviewing why I wasted my time looking at the moribund dart rather > than cdash, dart clients are mentioned several times in the > ctest-2.8.12.2 documentation (and I missed the one reference to cdash > that also occurs there) so I did a google search, found > <http://www.cmake.org/dart/HTML/Install.shtml> and went galloping off > in the wrong direction. :-( > > I have now looked at the documentation for ctest-3.0.2, and cdash is > mentioned a lot more but then so is dart. I think that documentation > should be updated to point users exclusively at cdash (possibly with a > reference to the dart protocol or dart standard but definitely not the > dart software which really is moribund or dart servers unless you are > referring to the protocol and not the software). > > Furthermore, to prevent others being misled like I was by > <http://www.cmake.org/dart/HTML/Install.shtml>, could someone with > write access to that web server either drop that page or modify that > page so that it at least mentions that dart is no longer maintained > and cdash is the suggested alternative? > > Currently http://www.cdash.org/overview/ does not mention dart at all > which is probably the best approach and what the ctest documentation > should do as well. > > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. Irwin > > Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, > University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). > > Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state > implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time > Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting > software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project > (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); > and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). > __________________________ > > Linux-powered Science > __________________________ > -- > > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ > > Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more > information on each offering, please visit: > > CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html > CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html > CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
We should probably wipe those references or just update that for 3.0 -- Jacky Alciné - http://jalcine.me -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers