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    1010== General Information ==
    1111
    12 === What is CMT ? ===
     12=== What is CMT? ===
    1313
    1414[http://www.cmtsite.org/ CMT](__C__onfiguration __M__anagement __T__ool) is a configuration management environment, based on some management conventions and comprises several shell-based utilities. It is an attempt to formalize software production and especially configuration management around a package-oriented principle.
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    1616The environment provides conventions (for naming packages, files, directories and for addressing them) and tools for automating as much as possible the implementation of these conventions. It permits to describe the configuration requirements and automatically deduce from the description the effective set of configuration parameters needed to operate the packages (typically for building them or using them).
    1717
    18 === What is a package ? ===
     18=== What is a package? ===
    1919
    2020The notion of packages represents hereafter a set of software components (that may be applications, libraries, tools etc...) that are to be used for producing a system or a framework. In such an environment, several persons are assumed to participate in the development and the components themselves are either independent or related to each other.
    2121
    22 === How to install CMT ? ===
     22=== How to install CMT? ===
    2323
    2424See: [http://www.cmtsite.org/install.html Install]
    2525
    26 === Are there copyright restrictions on the use of CMT ? ===
     26=== Are there copyright restrictions on the use of CMT? ===
    2727
    2828Not really. CMT is provided as an Open-Source product, with available sources, and is opened to any contribution from anybody.
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    3030See the license page [http://www.cecill.info/licences.en.html agreement] to find further explanations and a link to the full text of the license.
    3131
    32 === How do I get documentation on CMT ? ===
     32=== How do I get documentation on CMT? ===
    3333
    3434All documentation is available on-line, starting at [http://www.cmtsite.org/documents.html Documents].
    3535
    36 === Is there a mailing list devoted to CMT ? ===
     36=== Is there a mailing list devoted to CMT? ===
    3737
    3838There is a mailing list, [http://www.cmtsite.org/discussion.html mailing list].
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    4646 * [http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/SOFTWARE/OO/sit/Policy/ Atlas and CMT]
    4747
    48  * [wiki:VincentTrial How do i begin playing with CMT ?]
     48 * [wiki:VincentTrial How do i begin playing with CMT?]
    4949
    50 === How do I submit bug reports for CMT ? ===
     50=== How do I submit bug reports for CMT? ===
    5151
    5252To report a bug, please use the relevant service from the Trac project.
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    5757== CMT in the real world ==
    5858 
    59 ===  How stable is CMT ? ===
     59===  How stable is CMT? ===
    6060
    6161Very stable (of course :) ).
    6262
    63 === How many people are using Python ? ===
     63=== How many people are using Python? ===
    6464
    6565CMT is an academic project aimed at providing support to the software developments in the context of large physics experiments ([http://atlas.web.cern.ch atlas],[[BR]][http://lhcb.web.cern.ch/lhcb/ lhcb], ...).
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    6969This kind of requirements also implies that portability or modularity issues (including environment independance) are assigned a quite high priority.
    7070
    71 === What are the supported platforms ? ===
     71=== What are the supported platforms? ===
    7272
    7373CMT has been ported and tested on a wide range of machines/operating systems, including:
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    8989== CMT's design ==
    9090
    91 === What are the architecture of the environment ? ===
     91=== What are the architecture of the environment? ===
    9292This environment is based on the fact that one of its packages (named CMT ) provides the basic
    9393management tools. CMT , as a package, has very little specificities and as such itself obeys the
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    117117== User FAQ ==
    118118
    119 === How to create a package ? ===
     119=== How to create a package? ===
    120120
    121121 cmt create <package_name> <version>
    122122
    123 === Does the "requirements" file support comments ? ===
     123=== Does the "requirements" file support comments? ===
    124124
    125125Yes. A comment starts with a hash character (#) that is not part of a string literal, and ends at the end of the physical line.
     126
     127
     128=== How do I configure CMT to work with CVS? ===
     129
     130
     131=== How do I add a new version to a project? ===