Re: new swarm anytime?

[Rick Riolo]

alex (and glen),
thanks for the info.
we like to build our own rather than use rpm's
so your advice is very helpful.
thanks,
 - r

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On 28 Jun 2002, Alex Lancaster wrote:

> Date: 28 Jun 2002 14:19:02 -0700
> From: Alex Lancaster <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: new swarm anytime?
> 
> >>>>> "GR" == glen e p ropella <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> GR> There are no current plans for a new release.  Before our funding
> GR> ran out, Marcus had brought us pretty close to a 2.2 release; but,
> GR> we couldn't finish it.
> 
> GR> We *do* have plans to put in place a distributed development
> GR> process.  At which point, we'll ask for volunteers to do the
> GR> release work (packaging, testing, etc).  At the moment, however,
> GR> we're busy shifting our infrastructure to donated resources
> GR> (machines, bandwidth, accounting and admin, etc.).
> 
> GR> My advice would be to upgrade to the current CVS trunk, which
> GR> should be stable enough.
> 
> Rick, It's funny that you should be asking right now, because I'm in
> the process of updating the website with more details on the latest
> snapshots.  I'll be posting a mini-Pheromone and updating the website
> on all these changes real soon now, and a recommendation to start
> using the development "snapshot" releases, available at:
> 
> ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/src/testing/
> 
> It's easier than trying to build from CVS, because you don't need all
> the development tools (like automake/autoconf/libtool) installed (the
> build is also sensitive to which versions of these tools you have).
> 
> Paul has RPMs for snapshot releases for Red Hat 7.3:
> 
> http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.2x_RPMSforRH7.3/
> 
> and 7.2:
> 
> http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.2x_RPMSforRH7.2/
> 
> 
> Alex
> 


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