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12      <h1>CMT</h1>
13    </center> 
14
15    <blockquote>
16      <b>
17        This <i>configuration management</i> environment, based on some
18        management conventions and comprising several shell-based
19        utilities, is an attempt to formalize software production and
20        especially configuration management around a
21        <i>package</i>-oriented principle.
22
23      <p>The notion of <i>packages</i> represents hereafter a set of
24        software components (that may be applications, libraries, tools
25        etc...) that are to be used for producing a <i>system</i> or a
26        <i>framework</i>. In such an environment, several persons are
27        assumed to participate in the development and the components
28        themselves are either independent or related to each other.
29
30      <p>The environment provides conventions (for <i>naming</i>
31        packages, files, directories and for <i>addressing</i> them) and
32        tools for <i>automating</i> as much as possible the
33        implementation of these conventions. It permits to
34        <i>describe</i> the configuration requirements and automatically
35        deduce from the description the effective set of configuration
36        parameters needed to operate the packages (typically for
37        <i>building</i> them or <i>using</i> them).
38      </b>
39    </blockquote>
40
41    <hr>
42    <h2> Project management</h2>
43
44    <blockquote>
45      CMT is an academic project aimed at providing support to the
46      software developments in the context of large physics
47      experiments. It is supported by the <a
48      href="http://www.lal.in2p3.fr">LAL</a> (Laboratoire de
49      l'Acc&eacute;l&eacute;rateur Lin&eacute;aire - CNRS), where a
50      support team has been setup:
51
52      <p>
53      <center><i>
54          Christian Arnault
55          <br>Bruno Mansoux
56          <br>Antoine P&eacute;rus
57        </i></center>
58
59      <p>This project is managed in an OpenSource-like style, with
60        available sources, and is opened to any contribution from
61        anybody. Although it is currently used by Physics experiments, it
62        is strongly required to stay experiment neutral, and this
63        requirements is fully endorsed in its internal design (eg by
64        ensuring that all possible customizations can always be performed
65        without modifications to the kernel).
66
67      <p>This kind of requirements also implies that portability or
68        modularity issues (including environment independance) are
69        assigned a quite high priority.
70
71    </blockquote>
72
73    <hr>
74    <h2> Available documentation</h2>
75
76    <blockquote>
77      <table rows=4>
78        <tr>
79          <td><center><i>document (html)</i></center></td>
80          <td><center><i>ps</i></center></td>
81          <td><center><i>pdf</i></center></td>
82          <td><center><i>ppt</i></center></td>
83        </tr>
84
85        <tr>
86          <td><a href="CMTDoc.html">CMT manual</a></td>
87          <td><a href="CMTDoc.ps.Z"><center>x</center></a></td>
88          <td><a href="CMTDoc.pdf"><center>x</center></a></td>
89          <td></td>
90        </tr>
91        <tr>
92          <td><a href="CMTFAQ.html">CMT FAQ</a></td>
93          <td><a href="CMTFAQ.ps.Z"><center>x</center></a></td>
94          <td><a href="CMTFAQ.pdf"><center>x</center></a></td>
95          <td></td>
96        </tr>
97        <tr>
98          <td><a href="Doxygen/html/index.html">Doxygen manual</a></td>
99          <td></td>
100          <td></td>
101          <td></td>
102        </tr>
103        <tr>
104          <td><a href="show/index.htm">CMT slides</a></td>
105          <td><a href="show.ps.Z"><center>x</center></a></td>
106          <td></td>
107          <td></td>
108        </tr>
109        <tr>
110          <td><a href="chep-cmt/index.htm">CMT slides presented at CHEP2000</a></td>
111          <td><a href="chep-cmt.ps.Z"><center>x</center></a></td>
112          <td></td>
113          <td></td>
114        </tr>
115        <tr>
116          <td><a href="slides/cern20000420.htm">Slides on the development model</a></td>
117          <td><a href="slides/cern20000420.ps"><center>x</center></a></td>
118          <td></td>
119          <td><a href="slides/cern20000420.ppt"><center>x</center></a></td>
120        </tr>
121        <tr>
122          <td><a href="slides/cern20001129.htm">A CMT tutorial</a></td>
123          <td><a href="slides/cern20001129.ps"><center>x</center></a></td>
124          <td></td>
125          <td><a href="slides/cern20001129.ppt"><center>x</center></a></td>
126        </tr>
127        <tr>
128          <td><a href="slides/cern20010228-2.htm">Another CMT tutorial</a></td>
129          <td><a href="slides/cern20010228-2.ps"><center>x</center></a></td>
130          <td></td>
131          <td><a href="slides/cern20010228-2.ppt"><center>x</center></a></td>
132        </tr>
133      </table>
134    </blockquote>
135
136    <hr>
137    <h2> The open discussion on CMT</h2>
138
139    <blockquote>
140      A <a href="http://ccmail.in2p3.fr/archives/cmt-l.html">mailing
141        list</a> is setup for managing an open discussion on CMT,
142      receiving requests, comments suggestions, bug reports, etc...
143
144      <p> You're welcome to subscribe to this list <a
145          href="http://ccmail.in2p3.fr/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=cmt-l&A=1">here</a>
146        or by sending a message with topic "<tt>subscribe CMT-L &lt;your name&gt;</tt>"
147        to <a
148          href="mailto:LISTSERV@IN2P3.FR"><tt>LISTSERV@IN2P3.FR</tt></a>.
149    </blockquote>
150
151    <hr>
152    <h2> The Web access to the main CVS repository of CMT</h2>
153
154    <blockquote>
155      The CVS repository for CMT is now accessible through CVSWeb <a href="http://www.lal.in2p3.fr/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/CMT/">here</a> !!
156    </blockquote>
157   
158    <hr>
159    <h2> Dowloading CMT</h2>
160   
161    <blockquote>
162
163      <p>
164        The current stable main version of CMT is v1r10. However
165        patched versions can be also produced (fixing bugs or
166        providing backward compatible improvements). Users are welcome
167        to try these new versions when they appear (and report from
168        their experience), although they must be considered as less
169        stable than the main current version.
170
171      <p>
172        Please notice that (at least from v1r6) the odd version
173        numbers must be considered as <i>development</i> or
174        <i>patched</i> versions (and as such are somewhat unstable),
175        and they may be updated from time to time. Whenever such a
176        development version comes to the point it can be stabilized,
177        it will be renamed to the next even number. As soon as a new
178        frozen version is installed, the intermediate patches are
179        removed, and new development versions may be proposed
180        (eg. under the name <tt>v1r&lt;n+1&gt;p&lt;date&gt;</tt>).
181
182      <p>
183        For each of the following tags, you'll find a distribution kit
184        for the sources and (for the latest ones) some prepared binary
185        files.
186
187      <ul>
188        <li> <a href="v1r10p20011126/CMTDownload.html">v1r10p20011126</a> <i>(patched version of v1r10)</i>
189        <li> <a href="v1r10p20011113/CMTDownload.html">v1r10p20011113</a> <i>(patched version of v1r10)</i>
190        <li> <a href="v1r10/CMTDownload.html">v1r10</a>
191        <li> <a href="v1r8p20010710/CMTDownload.html">v1r8p20010710</a> <i>(bug fixed with respect to v1r8 should be fetched instead of v1r8!!)</i>
192        <li> <a href="v1r8/CMTDownload.html">v1r8</a>
193        <li> <a href="v1r6/CMTDownload.html">v1r6</a>
194        <li> <a href="v1r5/CMTDownload.html">v1r5</a>
195        <li> <a href="v1r4/CMTDownload.html">v1r4</a>
196      </ul>
197
198      <p>In order to download the distribution kit, select a root
199        directory where CMT will be installed. Create there a directory
200        named <tt>CMT</tt> and un-tar all the kits you have selected
201        below from this directory:
202
203      <blockquote>
204        <pre>
205> cd &lt;some root&gt;
206> uncompress CMTv1r10.tar.Z
207> tar xvf CMTv1r10.tar
208        </pre>
209      </blockquote>
210
211      <p>If you wish to build CMT on other plateforms, you just need a
212        C++ compiler (supporting templates - STL is not needed) and a
213        bash-like shell.
214      <p>
215    </blockquote>
216
217    <hr>
218    <h2>Installing and using CMT</h2>
219
220    <blockquote>
221      <p>
222        Once the distribution kit is downloaded, and untarred, resulting
223        in a directory structure like:
224
225      <blockquote>
226        <pre>
227&lt;some root&gt;/CMT/v1r10/...
228        </pre>
229      </blockquote>
230
231      you have to perform the installation by running:
232
233      <blockquote>
234        <pre>
235unix> cd &lt;some root&gt;/CMT/v1r10/mgr
236unix> ./INSTALL
237unix> source setup.[c]sh
238unix> [g]make
239
240  or
241
242dos> cd &lt;some root&gt;\CMT\v1r10\mgr
243dos> call INSTALL.bat
244dos> call setup.bat
245dos> nmake /f nmake
246        </pre>
247      </blockquote>
248
249      Then CMT is installed, and anybody may use CMT simply by doing:
250
251      <blockquote>
252        <pre>
253unix-csh> source &lt;some root&gt;/CMT/v1r10/mgr/setup.csh
254
255  or
256
257unix-sh> . &lt;some root&gt;/CMT/v1r10/mgr/setup.sh
258
259  or
260
261dos> call &lt;some root&gt;\CMT\v1r10\mgr\setup.bat
262        </pre>
263      </blockquote>
264    </blockquote>
265   
266    <hr>
267    <h2>Installing and using CMT on Windows</h2>
268
269    <blockquote>
270      <P>
271        Some of the global configuration parameters for CMT <i>may</i>
272        optionally be installed as Windows registry entries (although
273        the environment variables style of definitions is fully
274        supported). This can be done using the <tt>install.exe</tt>
275        facility available from the download page or using the
276        standard RegEdit facility :
277      </P>
278
279      <UL>
280
281        <LI>
282          <tt>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/CMT/root</tt> will contain the root
283          directory where CMT is installed (eg. "e:").
284        </LI>
285
286        <LI>
287          <tt>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/CMT/version</tt> will contain the
288          current version tag of CMT ("v1r10" for this version).
289        </LI>
290
291        <LI>
292          <tt>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/CMT/path/</tt> may
293          optionally contain a set of text values corresponding to the
294          different package global access paths (similar to the
295          CMTPATH environment variable.
296        </LI>
297
298        <LI>
299          <tt>HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/CMT/path/</tt> may contain a
300          set of text values corresponding to the different package
301          private access paths (complementary to the latter).
302        </LI>
303
304      </UL>
305
306    </blockquote>
307
308    <hr>
309    <address>
310      <a href="mailto:arnault@asc.lal.in2p3.fr">Christian Arnault</a></address>
311
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