Minutes

RM

Mac - nothing new for tiger token issue

Windows - RM parsing output EOL issue due to difference in how unixes and windows specify EOL (smile) which causes RM to miss build failures.  Navid has a fix, first he modified the build system for RM2 to use Qt's build system, rather than SCons, as the SCons was becoming unwieldy.  Navid has committed the necessary changes and can now get back to implementing the EOL fix.  Why Qmake rather than SCons?  Well, RM2 (as well as GoGui which also uses Qmake), is built on top of Qt.  Qmake takes care of Qt's intermediate moc files automatically.  Qmake is very basic, does less than make in fact.  It can be set up quickly with few lines of Qmake code, but it would not work for GR or ST, since it is not configurable.

Preparing for a SCons release of ST for the upcoming reprocessing

Richard had asked about making a SCons release of ST.  Of course RM2 already performs the builds automatically for LATEST, HEADs or tags.  There was a recent fix to astro, which Navid believes is already in ST HEAD.  There is a new problem for pylikelihood, where the swig compile fails due to the *.in and *.i files being out of synch.  Eric Winter had reported the problem and Navid has issued him a fix, if it works, Navid will contact Jim Chiang to get the patch put into CVS.  The remaining issue is getting a Mac build produced.  Due to the outstanding token issue, Navid will perform the Mac build by hand.  Navid requested that we attempt this on an upcoming ST HEAD before a tag is in place, so we can test out the Mac build and patch if necessary.  Heather will ask Jim to give us a heads up before he makes a new ST tag.

Navid wants to encourage people to look at the SCons builds so that developers will become more proactive in fixing problems.  The automated notifications are not really working so far.  Heather asked if build failures could be noted on the CMT RM page, to perhaps attract more attention.  Navid will look into the feasibility of that.  Joanne suggested asking people like Jim directly what would grab their attention.

RMviewer and Tag collector - No News

Web based Installer - Navid will contact Tony now.

RM2 Web page 

Navid has sent Karen the information necessary to provide the checkout and compile output on the web pages.  The last time Heather had checked (over a week ago), that information was still not available.  Obviously Karen is busy with other things, so she may not have gotten back to this yet.  Navid will check with Karen to make sure she has all the info she requires.

SCons and Windows

swig stuff is working now -- need more to get env setup for
something similar for rootcint like swig
then justabou about there
need more externals for 2008

CHS
  several packages with inadequate sconscript files or none at all - or not tagged
  the one Joanne knows about has been taged by Joanne
  Joanne could ask Bryson when he's around, and Joanne could pursue if necessary

Fred and Fox
Emmanuel has tried brute force debugging, with print statements, to see where things are hanging up.  He notes trouble in a ruby file:  FredMainWindows.rb where it is hanging about not creating a window before the parent window.  He also notes that there is a "winxp" parameter pass to the Fred.rb, and wonders if that would be causing trouble on linux.
Other news
Emmanuel has installed python 2.6.2 for rhel4 so people like Tom can try it out.

Agenda

The Big To Do