.\" .\" aegis - project change supervisor .\" Copyright (C) 2000-2002, 2004-2008, 2010, 2012 Peter Miller .\" .\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or .\" (at your option) any later version. .\" .\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU .\" General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License .\" along with this program. If not, see . .\" .nh 2 "The To\[hy]Do List" .\" ======================================================================== .IP \(bu 2n Add an additonal mode to \fIaedist\fP to query an \fIaeget\fP server for change set UUIDs and download and apply missing change sets. It needs to be able to be run by \fIcron\fP(8). Submitted: PMiller, 1\[hy]Jun\[hy]2004 .\" ======================================================================== .nh 3 "aecvsserver" .IP \(bu 2n The aecvsserver needs to be extensively tested by users. Submitted: PMiller, 1\[hy]Jun\[hy]2004 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Implement more of the CVS client commands which can be sent to the server, usually by saying "yes, bwana" and doing nothing. Submitted: PMiller, 1\[hy]Jun\[hy]2004 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Implement a cvs commit against a project (at the moment this is not allowed because you have to use a "module" named after a change set) which will create a change set apply the changes and do everything to get to aede. Submitted: PMiller, 1\[hy]Jun\[hy]2004 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Is it possible to use the same techinique to write an SVN server? Submitted: PMiller, 1\[hy]Jun\[hy]2004 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Is it possible to use the same techinique to write an arch server? Submitted: PMiller, 1\[hy]Jun\[hy]2004 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Arch has the concept (if not the implementation) of an SCM\[hy]neutral interchange format. Implement it. Submitted: PMiller, 23\[hy]Jan\[hy]2004 .\" ======================================================================== .nh 3 "Geographically Distributed Development" .IP \(bu 2n The \fIaedist \-receive\fP command needs to be enhanced to understand file attributes. Submitted: PMiller, 2\[hy]Jun\[hy]2004 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n The \fIaepatch \-receive\fP command needs to be enhanced to understand file attributes. Submitted: PMiller, 2\[hy]Jun\[hy]2004 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Enhance the \fIaedist \-receive\fP command to understand incoming files with UUIDs. Submitted: PMiller, 1\[hy]Jun\[hy]2004 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Enhance the \fIaepatch \-receive\fP command to understand incoming files with UUIDs. Submitted: PMiller, 1\[hy]Jun\[hy]2004 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Add an additonal mode to \fIaedist\fP to query an \fIaeget\fP server for change set UUIDs and download and apply missing change sets. It needs to be able to be run by \fIcron\fP(8). Submitted: PMiller, 1\[hy]Jun\[hy]2004 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Enhance \fIaedist\fP to preserve change history (both send and receive will need work). Don't forget backwards compatibility. Submitted: Jerry Pendergraft, 2003 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Enhance \fIaedist \-receive\fP to leave changes in \fIawaiting development\fP or \fIbeing developed\fP if that's the state they were in at the origin. Submitted: Jerry Pendergraft, May\[hy]2004 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Enhance \fIaepatch \-receive\fP to run tests on changes which require it. Submitted: PMiller, 1\[hy]Jun\[hy]2004 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Enhance \fIaepatch\fP to preserve change history (both send and receive will need work). Incoming patches with no meta\[hy]data obviously can't do this. Don't forget meta\[hy]data backwards compatibility. Submitted: PMiller, 1\[hy]Jun\[hy]2004 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Enhance \fIaepatch \-receive\fP to leave changes in \fIbeing developed\fP if that's the state they were in at the origin. Patches with no meta\[hy]data stay in \fIbeing developed\fP. Submitted: PMiller, 1\[hy]Jun\[hy]2004 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Enhance \fIaepatch\fP and \fIaedist\fP to automagically sign (send) and verify (receive) the contents, using the (revolting) library from the \fIgpgme\fP project. This stupid library spawns an \fIgpg\fP(1) instance and talks to it; unlike a sensible library \fIe.g.\fP the \fIzlib\fP project; why on earth couldn't they take the common code from gpg and make a library of \fIthat?\fP Submitted: PMiller, 1\[hy]Jun\[hy]2004 .\" ======================================================================== .nh 3 "Documentation" .IP \(bu 2n Add a section to the branching chapter of the User Guide, describing how a developer may use a branch to temporarily waive the build command. After a series of changes on this branch, the build command is restored, and the branch development ended. This allows regular "non working" commits, without losing any of the strengths of the Aegis process. Submitted: 7\[hy]Mar\[hy]2000 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n The manual pages need to have an example(s) section added to make them clearer. This isn't just for beginners, infrequently used commands need examples even for sophisticated Aegis users. Submitted: Geoff Soutter , 3 Mar 2000 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Get tkdiff 3\[hy]way merge working with Aegis (see \f[CW]http://www.ede.com/\%free/\%tkdiff/\fP for code). Submitted: 24\[hy]jan\[hy]2000 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Add information to the History Tool chapter, describing how to use CVSup to access the RCS history tree. Submitted: 28\[hy]jan\[hy]2000 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n the RCS history commands in the aegis user guide all use the `\-u' option for `ci' to check out a copy after registering/updating a file. However `ci \-u' always does keyword expansion. To avoid this, we have omitted the \-u, so the working file is gone after the `ci'. We check it out again using `co', this time with the `\-ko' option to avoid keyword expansion. .\" .\" history_create_command = .\" "ci \-f \-d \-M \-m$c \-t/dev/null '$i' '$h,v'; rcs \-U '$h,v';\ .\" co \-ko \-u '$i' '$h,v'"; .\" history_put_command = .\" "ci \-f \-d \-M \-m$c '$i' '$h,v'; co \-ko \-u '$i' '$h,v'"; .\" history_get_command = .\" "co \-ko \-r'$e' \-p '$h,v' > '$o'"; .\" Note that the \-ko option is always given to the `co' command, never to `ci' or `rcs'. Submitted: Ralf Fassel , 18 Jan 2000 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n * diff ; test $? \-le 1 \[->] diff ; test $? \-ne 1 means that unchanged files prevent aede!! (Only fly in the ointment is moving files \- need to cope with this.) Submitted: Gus 28 Jul 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n mention in the diff tool part of the User Guide, that you can mess with diff_command to exclude with binary files, or file with CR in them, or lines too long, \fIetc\fP. Submitted: PMiller, 28\[hy]jun\[hy]99 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n in the branching chapter, have a section about using sub\[hy]branches to turn build_command off (or to ignore exit status), and integrate lots of teensy tiny bug fixes, and then turn it on again. In the front, reference the branching chapter in \[lq]how to extend the Aegis process\[rq] Can mention extra review steps there, too. Submitted: choffman@dvcorp.com, 22 Jun 1999 .\" .\" Ralf fassel suggests .\" Either you add new code, then you *need* a build and regression .\" tests. Or you don't add new code, then why not accumulate those .\" changes in one super\[hy]comment\[hy]fix\[hy]change. It should not affect .\" the working of the program, so there is `no need' to integrate .\" it *right* *now*. .\" .\" We had situations where changing the header files revealed a .\" glitch in the makefiles (some modules were rebuilt, some not, so .\" the magic constants between modules did not match any longer). .\" And we also had the accidental `\' at the end of a comment .\" line commenting out the following line of script code. Without .\" regression tests those would have ended up in the baseline. .\" .\" I guess this is a common problem. We ended up having one .\" super\[hy]change before the release date accumulating all those .\" small bug fixes. This way you have to run the build/test cycle .\" only once. This way the definition of `few' above could be .\" shifted nearer towards the release date. Not really satisfying. .\" But fixing a small bug and introducing another by sloppy editing .\" isn't either in this situation shortly before release... .\" .\" In short, we all curse aegis for the extended development cycle, but .\" at the same time we wouldn't [omit] it any more. .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Document the build_time_adjust_notify_command in the DMT chapter of the User Guide. Update the example projects to use it. Update the config example to use it. Submitted: PMiller, 4\[hy]Apr\[hy]99 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Mention binary files in the diff and merge section (may provide aebinfil command to help choose which behavior?) Submitted: PMiller, 31\[hy]mar\[hy]99 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n mention \[lq]rcs \-ko\[rq] in the User Guide and put it into the examples AND also fhist keywords in the User Guide and put it into the examples. and make sure the examples all have hist_{put,create} the same. Subject: Ralf Fassel , 9 Mar 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n worked example, \[lq]5.2.7 says that the cook file contains all of the above commands but my copy doesn't have them ...\[rq] [for config file and howto.cook file] BUT integration diffs not in the worked example. Submitted: Michael McCarty , 26\[hy]Feb\[hy]99 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n need discussion (Howto, or maybe the User Guide) of how to use Aegis when you site has a mix of Unix and Wintel. Submitted: Paolo Supino , 4 Feb 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n add chapter to User Guide, saying how to config web interface and how to use it. Submitted: Graham Wheeler , 27 Jan 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n User Guide: big changes bouncing: how to use a branch to get smaller reviews and smaller diffs. Submitted: Ralf Fassel , 27 Jan 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n note for User Guide: metrics software form ftp://ftp.qucis.queensu.ca/\%pub/\%software\[hy]eng/\%software/\%Cmetrics/ .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n correct documentation of file locking in UG: correct the example around the file locking \- it gives the wrong text of the aede error \- and probably other stuff. also, the wrong person comes back from aerobics .\" ======================================================================== .nh 3 "More Reports" .IP \(bu 2n Add a \-REVerse option, so that all of the listings (ael) come out in the reverse order to that used at present. Submitted: John Darrington , 20\[hy]Jul\[hy]2001 .IP \(bu 2n Write an \fIaereport\fP file to produce MS\[hy]Project views of a project, making sure that the states of each change are linked, use averages to predict any incomplete states. And maybe another to produce HTML pages of the same thing. Submitted: 15\[hy]Jan\[hy]2000 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n On the \fIaeget\fP(1) web pages, link the file edit numbers to pages which will retrieve the historical version. Submitted: Anoop Kulkarni , 22 Dec 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Add a user_change report (just like \[lq]ael user_changes\[rq]) which takes a user name, so you can get a list of changes by user. Make \fIaeget\fP(1) do this, too. Submitted: Ralf Fassel , 9 Dec 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Add a outstanding_changes report (just like \[lq]ael outstanding_changes\[rq]) which takes a user name, so you can get a list of outstanding changes by user. Make \fIaeget\fP(1) do this, too. Submitted: Ralf Fassel , 9 Dec 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Write a report which says when you have to do to get a change completed Jerry says he has written most of this. Submitted: jerry.pendergraft@endocardial.com 3\[hy]Nov\[hy]99 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n ael change_history \- write as a report and then include project history for sub branches. Don't forget the web reports, too. Submitted:Jerry Pendergraft , 30 Aug 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n ael outstanding_changes \- rewrite as a report and then include sub branches. Don't forget the web reports, too. Submitted: Jerry Pendergraft , 30 Aug 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n ael project_history \- rewrite as a report and then include parents and sub branches. Don't forget the web reports, too. Submitted: Jerry Pendergraft , 30 Aug 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n aer file_history \- include parents and sub branches. Don't forget the web reports, too. Submitted: Jerry Pendergraft 30 Aug 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Some kind of web report which makes \[lq]train track\[rq] diagrams of file branching. .IP \(bu 2n Some kind of web report which makes \[lq]train track\[rq] diagrams of project branching. .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n multivariate linear regression: needed as a report generator function: needed for metrics analysis .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n more blurb in the statistics web pages, so they are more self\[hy]explaining Submitted: Ralf Fassel , 13\[hy]Oct\[hy]98 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Add anew report like \[lq]ael uc\[rq] except that it (optionally) takes a user name as well, to list a particular user's changes. .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n File Activity Report (web) does not translate user name and give email link. Should also put user name under change state, as in change lists. .\" ======================================================================== .nh 3 "Core Enhancements" .IP \(bu 2n Use the per\[hy]file attributes to record the encoding of the text (e.g. UTF\[hy]8) and the line termination. Provide a way (via the iconv(3) function? via recode(1) command?) to change the encoding. Submitted: PMiller, 23\[hy]Jun\[hy]2004 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n "I have determined that one reason [that aedeu is used in preference to aerfail] is the reviewer is afraid they don't understand the change and once explained they would not fail it. Now the fact that the description, comments etc did not do the job to explain the change is reason enough to fail it notwithstanding... They are saying if they had an aerfu command they would be willing to aerf changes. How difficult would that be?" Not very difficult at all. Provided, of course, that nothing has been changed in the mean time (and Aegis has everything it needs to check that). Submitted: Jerry Pendergraft, 23\[hy]Jun\[hy]2004 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n The project_file_roll_forward function needs to be enhanced to understand file UUIDs. Submitted: PMiller, 1\[hy]Jun\[hy]2004 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Now the sources are all being compiled by a C++ cimpiler, convert the various OO portions of the code (inout_ty and its derived classes, output_ty, etc) to true C++. Need a style guide first, so other developers know how I want it done. See SRecord for examples until this is done. Submitted: PMiller, 1\[hy]Jun\[hy]2004 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n More doxygen comments in the header files. Submitted: PMiller, 23\[hy]Jan\[hy]2004 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Add a "development directory style" configuration option. The current styles are "view path" and two types of "symlink farm", although this is well concealed by the code. Need to add a hard link (arch\[hy]ish) / copyfile (cvs\[hy]ish) style as well, but only for source files. The code which currently maintains the symlinks can be pressed into doing the extra work fairly easily. Submitted: PMiller, 1\[hy]Jun\[hy]2004 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n It would be nice to have a way to specify a timeout for aegis tests. If a single test does not finish within this time, it should be aborted and considered `No Result'. Then aet should continue with the next test (as appropriate if \-persevere was given). A `\-timeout' argument to `aet' would do the trick, and also a project config field. The implementation could be interesting, since signaling the forked aegis child process might not be enough to stop all processes (process groups?). Submitted: Ralf Fassel , 24\[hy]Jan\[hy]2001 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Problem with aepa that doesn't specify the default values for all the test features in aeca (there are three types in aeca and only one in aepa). Submitted: Mark Veltzer , 16 Aug 2001 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n The \fIaedist\fP(1) program should send changes with no files, or changes in "being developed". Submitted: Mark Veltzer , 16 Aug 2001 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Have \fIaem\fP merge changes properly if another changed moved the file in the baseline. You need to do this across the board, not just in \f[CW]aegis/aed.c\fP Submitted: Ralf Fassel , 25 Feb 2000 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Add progress (%) indicators (aeib was specific example, but there may be others \fIe.g.\fP symlink farms and aecp, even aede for big changes) for use by the GUI interfaces \- and maybe the text interface too. Submitted: Ralf Fassel 10 Dec 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Extend the create_symlinks_before_build functionality to copy, not just symlink. Because they would edit the files direct, we then need an implicit aecpcorne detector. You need to look for other boundary conditions this is also going to affect. You need a remove_symlinks_after_build analogue, too. Submitted: Darrin Thompson , 15 Nov 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n os.h is a system header on some systems, so os.h has to move Sumbitted: Christophe Broult 30 Sep 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n aedist \-rec needs to preserve (a) copyright years, (b) test exemptions (subject to permissions), and (c) architecture (if possible). AND CHANGE NUMBER? Submitted: Ewolt Wolters , 27 Jul 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Aedist to add project history to end of description when sending change set. Submitted: Jerry Pendergraft , Dec\[hy]2000 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n can we separate change creation from other administrator permissions? can we make "everyone" able to create changes? Submitted: Ewolt Wolters , 28 Jun 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n should explicitly mention CPPFLAGS=\-I/usr/local/include; export CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS=\-L/usr/local/lib; export LDFLAGS in the configuring section. Submitted: John Huddleston , 19 Mar 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Using file attributes, add coupling between files to form file groups; this means when you aecp, you get the whole set of related files. Submitted: PMiller, 18\[hy]Feb\[hy]99 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n The aed command does not promote aenf\[->]aecp unless the ,D file does not exist. This is annoying, should always do it. (So should some other commands.) Subject: Ralf Fassel , 1 Feb 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Add a default_regression_test_exemption project attribute. Submitted: Ralf Fassel , 31 Jan 1999, Jerry Pendergraft , 2 Feb 2001. .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Need a clean_exceptions file in the project config file (list of strings) so can have local RCS dirs, and do "ci `aegis \-l cf \-ter`" in the develop_end_command Submitted: 1\[hy]Feb\[hy]99 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n aenpr \-dir \-keep: allow directory to already exist if has right owner and is empty? Submitted: Jerry Pendergraft , 22 Jan 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Add a new post_merge_command so can generate summary of files needing editing. Subject: Ralf Fassel , 21 Dec 1998 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Create a new aepatch command: \[lq]aepatch \-send\[rq] to create "ordinary" OpenSource source patches, and \[lq]aepatch \-receive\[rq] to turn patches into an Aegis change \- and not necessarily only patches generated with aepatch. Yes, intentionally similar to aedist. .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n integrate difference should look for missing ,D files (usually impossible) and re\[hy]instate them. Submitted: PMiller, 22\[hy]Sep\[hy]98 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n tests 7, 20, 70 warn symlink.c: In function `main': symlink.c:5: warning: return type of `main' is not `int' Submitted: Bruce Stephen Adams , 10 Sep 1998 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n change_set_env needs to set LINES and COLS .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n commands which accept \-branch and/or \-trunk should also accept \-grandparent but not all do. check. .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Add a \-no\[hy]baseline\[hy]lock option to the aeb and aecp commands. Warn them not to in the manual pages. .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n list locks \- need to spot the case where *all* of a set are taken (all 64k) and report sensibly (not 64K lines) .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n aemv does not correctly check the \f[I]to\fP filename. (specific example = file name length) .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n aefind needs a sort option .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n aefind needs the rest of the find functionality added .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n * Add a \-output option to the aent command (\fIothers?\fP) for scripting support. .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n aed \- when auto upgrade create to modify, clear move if set. .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n aede needs to make sure that the files (and directories) are readable (and searchable) by reviewers. .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n make aemv rename files within a change .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n aecp \-anticipate .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Make the listing more specific for aecp aecpu aenfu aentu aerm aermu, etc .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n add a file copy notification command to the project config file .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Add pseudo change do can do many integrations at once (this pseudo change would be created by aeib and destroyed by aeipass, aeifail or aeibu). .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Version punctuation: at the moment you gets dots between the branch numbers. Need more flexible punctuation: especially, want a hyphen first, then dots (sometimes). .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n * aecp \-delta bug \[lq]I've been making good use of the "\-delta" option of aecp lately. But there has been a complication in its use. Let's say a file was aerm'ed in delta 100. Let's further say that we are at delta 175 and are trying to restore the source code as of delta 75. If I do a "aecp \- delta 75 file.c" I'm told that file.c is no longer part of the project.\[rq] Should aecp \-del fake aenf for deleted files in earlier deltas? Submitted: markm@endo.com .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n internationalize \-interactive .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Enhance aet to allow reviewers to run tests. .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n check library state files on project creation \[lq]I was creating a new release from a large project. After copying the baseline and creating hundreds of history files the aenrls failed because the library dir I specified wasn't writable by aegis and no state file was created. Couldn't this be checked first?\[rq] Submitted: Lloyd Fischer .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Add precedence constraints: a list of prerequisite changes, which must all be in the \[lq]completed\[rq] state before the change may end development. Submitted: Christian F. Goetze .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n If there is a read error when reading the template source file during aent, get a stupid error within error message, and never tells you about the file .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n How about "include" support for the config file? That way one could also cover architecture specific things by \[lq]include ${libdir}/${project}.defs\[rq] in the config file. Submitted: Jerry Pendergraft , 7 Sep 2001 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Add an \fIaetouch\fP command, to touch all of the (non\[hy]build) source files in the change. Submitted: 2001 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Have the \[lq]aeclean \-list\[rq] option say what aeclean would do, rather than list the change source files. Submitted: 2001 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Have aed (aem) *remember* the previous state when it finds a problem (much like aet does, now). Submitted: Ralf Fassel 3\[hy]Mar\[hy]2002 .\" ======================================================================== .nh 4 "More O(1) Scalability" .IP \(bu 2n Need to supplement the {project,change}_file_find and {project,change}_file_nth interfaces with {project,change}_file_name_nth interfaces. Then, use them as often as possible. .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Need the fstate file to have a manifest field; access this for file names. Then, store each file into in a separate file; only access this file is file state is required. .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n The presence or absence of the manifest field in the top\[hy]level fstate file tells you if the old or new file state usage is present. .\" ======================================================================== .nh 3 "GUI" .IP \(bu 2n tkaeca barfs when there are no changes on the branch. should be more graceful. Submitted: Ewolt Wolters , 11 Aug 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n using tkaegis: project > branch > role > integrate, a window pops up "Error in tcl script, Error: invalid command name ".mbar.review.menu"". Submitted: Ewolt Wolters 9 Aug 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n user pasted in text (including back slash) into aeifail edit window. which was accepted, but broke change state (illegal escape sequence). Submitted: Michael McCarty , 10 May 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n A new ${architecture_list} substitution to give all architectures in a command. Submitted: jerry.pendergraft@endocardial.com, 31 Mar 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n have aedist \-rec accept a \-delta option, so you can tell it where to apply from. Anticipated use is \[lq]\-delta 0\[rq] meaning start of branch. (also a \-reg option). Submitted: PMiller, 22\[hy]mar\[hy]99 .\" ======================================================================== .nh 3 "Release and Build and Install" .IP \(bu 2n add debian \f[CW].deb\fP file, add notification to for new releases. Submitted: PMiller, 22\[hy]Jun\[hy]99 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n building documentation needs to talk about libz some more. particularly, you either need it on ROOT's LD_LIBRARY_PATH or you need to static link it. Submitted: Ralf Fassel 5\[hy]Apr\[hy]99 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n have configure script whine about missing libz Submitted: PMiller, 7 Apr 99 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n have configure script whine about missing regcomp Submitted: PMiller, 7 Apr 99 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Sample documentation needs to make the \fIgroup\fP thing obvious. And also the umask at aenpr time! Submitted: Alan Zimmerman , 5 Apr 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n generated makefile CC=cc needs to quote cc in case has spaces Submitted: Aaron Johnson , 31 Mar 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n The BUILDING file needs to mention that you should install zlib with \-\-prefix=/usr because many systems think /usr/local/lib "insecure directory". Submitted: Fabien Campagne , 26 Mar 1999 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n add piece to BUILDING file saying to get Apache first. Submitted: Graham Wheeler 27 Jan 1999 .\" ======================================================================== .nh 3 "Database" .IP \(bu 2n Write an ODBC interface to the database? Submitted: P. Miller, 16 Aug 2001 .\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .IP \(bu 2n Does it make sense to have an NNTP interface? Would it be any use? Submitted: P. Miller, 16 Aug 2001 .\" vim: set ts=8 sw=4 et :