MeetingNotes011608 - coin-or-foundation/tlc GitHub Wiki

TLC Meeting January 16, 2008

The TLC met by teleconference on January 16, 2008 at 1:30 PM EST.

Agenda

  1. Request for additional CppAD archives

  2. Configure files in DOS file format

  3. Circular dependencies revisited

  4. Current status of releases

  5. Mailing list renaming

  6. Replace addlibs.txt with the equivalent of xml2-config.

  7. Linux binary happenings

  8. Should perms.txt be visibile?

Notes

  1. There was a discussion of how to satisfy the requirement for CppAD's source archive to be available in order to facilitate distribution of his Fedora package. The issue is that it is not enough to simply create a source distribution by doing an svn export, which is the current procedure. He needs to actually run a make dist command. It was agreed that it's a good idea to allow project managers the option of creating distributions this way. Over time, in fact, we should probably encourage as many PMs as possible to move to this mode of distribution.

  2. An issue has arisen regarding the difference in line styles between DOS and Unix. It seems that the CYGWIN shell is not able to run the configure scripts if there are DOS-style end-of-lines. One has the choice specify the "native" text file format in Cygwin during installation, and it seems that if someone chooses DOS-style, the configuration will not work. We should probably correct this by not using the svn property svn:eol-style set to native. We could set it to LF, or we could just delete this property for the configure scripts. Andreas agreed take this on.

  3. Lou is attempting to remedy the circulare dependencies that have arisen in Osi as of late.

  4. New releases are coming slowly.

  5. Mailing lists will be renamed imminently. Copious warning will be provided and appropriate forwarding mechanisms put in place.

  6. It was agreed to put the addlibs.txt files that list the libraries required to link to in order to link to a given project's libraries should be moved to share/doc/coin, rather than their current location in lib/.

  7. Leo reported than things are moving ahead on the RPM creation front.

Respectfully submitted,

Ted Ralphs, TLC Chair