From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6423 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2000 20:49:58 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 3 Apr 2000 20:49:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 20123 invoked by alias); 3 Apr 2000 20:49:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-announce-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 107 Received: (qmail 18938 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2000 20:46:19 -0000 To: zsh-announce@sunsite.auc.dk (Zsh announcements list) Subject: New zsh development site at sourceforget.net Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 21:46:14 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson Message-Id: Development of zsh is now being hosted at sourceforge.net, a repository for free software which provides developers with lots of useful tools. For readers of the zsh-announce and zsh-users mailing lists, changes should be fairly transparent, since the existing web pages at http://sunsite.auc.dk/zsh/ and the the FTP archive at ftp://ftp.zsh.org/zsh/ will be maintained, including uploading of periodic development versions. However, here are some details for anyone interested. The home page for zsh development is at http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=4068 Note this is not the same as the zsh web pages, nor even the zsh sourceforge web pages (currently being set up); it is dedicated to development. You can submit bug reports here, although they can still be sent to zsh-workers (better if you're not quite sure if the bug is still there in the most recent version). It is also possible to track the source code repository and look at the latest (or, indeed, earlier) versions of individual files without getting the entire distribution. To do this, follow the link `CVS repository' then `Browse repository' from the zsh development page. A direct link for this is: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/?cvsroot=zsh The `zsh/' link with a folder icon next to it is the top of the source distribution tree. You can browse the directory hierarchy, look at the status of files, and retrieve files. The archive of changes goes back some months, thanks to Tanaka Akira whose personal archive forms the basis of the official one. If you have cvs installed and Internet access you can keep up to date with the zsh distribution with a minimum of effort. You will need a few developers' tools as well, however: GNU autoconf (which depends on GNU m4 --- both from any GNU archive) and yodl (a documentation tool, if you want to keep the manual pages up to date --- from ftp.lilypond.org:/pub/yodl). Anonymous CVS is available: do cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.zsh.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/zsh login and just hit return when prompted for a password, then cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.zsh.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/zsh -z3 co zsh to retrieve the distribution (-z3 assumes you have gzip). In the new zsh directory, you will need to run Util/preconfig --- this is where you find out if autoconf is working properly. Now you can configure and compile zsh as usual. You can periodically update the tree with `cvs update -z3 -Pd' in the top-level zsh directory. -- Peter Stephenson Work: pws@CambridgeSiliconRadio.com Web: http://www.pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk