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What can the GSRC do for me?

Today, the GSRC can offer the following facilities to software developers

The Softdevel SIG

The softdevel special interest group has been set up. The softdevel SIG is open to everyone in the GSRC, we hope that the mailing list will be used on an as needed basis to discuss and debate GSRC software development issues.

Mailing Lists

Each GSRC special interest group can have a mailing list associated with it. The mailing lists are archived and include a search facility.

CVS

A CVS repository has been set up on gigasource.eecs.berkeley.edu.

Software projects that have developers at more than one institution often have problems setting up accounts at each institution for each developer. Such projects may find it easier to give each developer a GSRC account and use this repository.

There is also a CVS SSH installer available for use under Windows NT.

Training

In April, 1999, John Reekie presented a GSRC Software Day. We hope to present other courses on areas such as CVS.

Advice

We are more than willing to look over your software development process and make suggestions and answer questions.

Future

In the future, we hope to offer

Nightly Builds

Eventually, we would like to be able to offer nightly builds, where the CVS repository is checked out in a clean location and ./configure; make; make install; make test is run and the results mailed back to the developers.

Nightly builds that are run on gigasource could take advantage of commercial software such as code coverage tools.

Installers

We are experimenting with the InstallShield Installers for C/C++ and Java. The C/C++ version runs only under Windows, but the Java installer runs under Windows and some Unixes.

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