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Attendees: Joanne Bogart, Toby Burnett, Emmanuel Cephas, Richard Dubois, Tom Glanzman, Navid GopayganiGolpayegani, Heather Kelly, Tracy Usher, Eric Winter
ScienceTools Status
Twelve unit tests (out of about 70) in ST continue to fail. Many are due to issues with hoops and apes, and once those are sorted out, most will be fixed. Some of the failing tests belong to Toby. Navid and Toby should get together to discuss.
What is left is to recreate the installer scripts - but that is not currently a high priority.
GlastRelease
Navid has SConsified AcdDigi and AcdUtil to the point where he can run their unit tests. This of course involved creating SConscript files for all the package dependencies as well. This is done on u30, and Navid will commit the changes to CVS shortly. (In fact that may already be done) The next step would hopefully entail involvement from the developers, otherwise Navid will step in and do it himself. Certainly there is interest from some developers (Joanne and Heather come to mind) to help out. It was suggested that to apply some additional pressure, we could use the new RM to highlight what packages are not ready for primetime in SCons. Unfortunately, Navid points out that currently the new RM reports packages as passed when they do not contain SConscript files. Also missing unit tests are not flagged as they are now with the current RM. Navid will be addressing these issues soon.
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xmlUtil
lsfData
idents
gui
geometry
enums
detModel
commonRootData
calibUtil
calibRootData
TkrUtil
LdfEvent
GuiSvc
GlastSvc
Event
CalibSvc
CalibData
CHS/eventFile
AcdUtil
AcdRecon
AcdDigi
JO Files
Currently our JO files can refer to each other through the use of CMT defined environment variables. We need to move to our new mechanism to define env vars at runtime via the facilities package, which is backwards compatible with CMT. This does mean that the <package>ROOT env variables will no longer be created once we complete the move to SCons. Instead, all the environment variables will be based off one variable, as is done in ST called INST_DIR. Eric W. noted that this will greatly simplify the existing ST setup scripts which manually set the environment variables.
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Navid outlined a possible migration path to minimize pain: We could introdude the new environment variables and continue to define the CMT environments as we do now. Then update the JO files to use the new variables, followed by eliminating the CMT environment variables.
External Libraries
Currently we are not consistently applying any convention to our external libraries. Navid would like to change that with this move to SCons. For every external we will have something like:
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Speaking of HEASARC, Navid mentioned he hopes to create a SCons builder which will generate the hmake Makefiles.
Next Step
Richard suggested that we should scope out the extent of the problem for JO files. Tom suggested that we could migrate to having a jobOptions directory in all packages, as part of our effort to move to a convention.
Windows and SCons and other issues
We have moved to a more recent version of SCons. The SCons team is preparing for a version 1.0 release and is in bug-fixing mode. Navid reports that he can create project files and open them up in VC++ and debug as well as develop and rebuild. This is different than the experience Tracy and Toby reported over a year ago with an older version of SCons. There was still a question as to whether solution files for a package would be aware of dependent project files. This should be tested again.
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