[tools-discuss] Distributed SCM evaluation packages.

[Frank van der Linden]

Hi folks,

After looking at Glynn's preliminary packages, getting an idea how it 
should be done, I've packaged up the initial distributed SCM candidates 
as listed by Stephen.

They are available for download at 
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/dscmdownload/

The packages are available for x86 and sparc where needed, and as 
architecture-neutral package where possible.

Since I really wanted to follow Stephen's suggestion of only installing 
in /opt/dscm, to keep things clean, a few things should be noted:

* Everything is installed in /opt/dscm
* For one of the packages, Python 2.4 was needed. This was not available 
under /usr/sfw, nor as a Blastwave package. So I created a DSCMpython 
package for Python 2.4.2, which lives under /opt/dscm, and only has 
"python2.4" as an executable, so that you may safely add /opt/dscm/bin 
to your path without having a conflict with your other Python installation.
* Other Python packages in this set were configured to use this version 
of Python, for consistency.
* For Perl packages (SVK), all Perl modules were installed under 
/opt/dscm/lib (/site_perl, /i86pc-solaris-64int), and a wrapper script 
is used to make svk find the right modules, by setting the PERL5LIB 
environment variable.
* Since the number of total Perl module dependencies (that were not 
found in the default Perl install) for SVK amounts to 44 packages, I 
bundled them into one big DSCMsvk-perl-depends-<arch> package. Really 
only a few of them are architecture-specific since they have shared 
objects, so this can be done more correctly in the future if anyone 
cares enough.

Also note that despite its name, the main Mercurial program is called "hg".

Source is provided for all packages at the URL mentioned above.

If you find any problems that seem to be related to how things were 
packaged up, let me know.

- Frank