Jan, Henning, according to the TestWeb, there seem to be quite some compilation problems with the lastest version of Pathfinder; hence, CVS HEAD version of Friday Dec 02 2005 (now tagged as "XQuery_TIJAH_root") to create a branch called "XQuery_TIJAH". Please let me/us know, in case there are any problems and/or once you want/need to start propagating changes from the main trunk to the XQuery_TIJAH branch. Also let me/us know, one you want/need to start automatic nightly testing of the XQuery_TIJAH branch. Regards, Stefan ps: I cc´ed the MonetDB-developers list, since more people (i.e., those maintaining and/or developing for any module in the MonetDB CVS repository on SF) might be interested in what's going on with the Pathfinder CVS repository; and monetdb-developers@lists.sourceforge.net is the proper communication channel that should be used more actively... On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:59:57AM +0100, Jan Flokstra wrote:

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for your response. Our answers to your questions are:

(1) We could have a branch from the current HEAD. It looks this works properly at this moment. And we would indeed like it A.S.A.P. beacause Jan is goiing to Mauritania for 3 weeks december 17th and he would like to have the software ready for Hennig to experiment.

(2) We are not planning to propagate from the pftijah branch to the main branch. I think we could use the existing scripts to propagate the changes from the main branch to the pftijah branch. The only real overlap are a couple of command declarations in "pathfinder.mx", all other stuff will be in new .mx files. In the end we would like to change the serialization.mx stuff because this will be used extensively. But we can change it in the main trunk and propagate it to 'pftijah'

(3) Jan F? We could create the branch and worry about the other stuff when he returns 10 januari!

Regards, Jan & Hennig.

On Tuesday 06 December 2005 11:15, Stefan Manegold wrote:

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Hi Jan, Hi Henning,

first of all, sorry for the late reply --- I had been quite busy recently --- only now (on short holidays in Germany ;-)) I found some time to write a proper reply ...

Well, in principle creating a branch for 'pftijah' is no problem at all. However, given the experiences I/we have with especially the update branch, we should make very clear, (1) when/of which version of the main trunk the branch is created, (2) how/when to propagate changes from the main trunk to the pftijah branch (preferably not from the pftijah branch to the main trunk, i.e. ALL BUG fixes that also apply to the main trunk MUST be checked in to the main branch (as well)), and (3) who is responsible for maintaining the pftijah branch, propagating changes/bug-fixes from the main trunk to the pftijah branch and testing(!) the pftijah branch.

About (1): I guess, you prefer ASAP, hence waiting for the release that we plan for end of January is no option, right? This in turn means that all changes of the update branch, which will be merged into the main trunk before the release (I guess just after new year), then also have to be merged into the pftijah branch...

About (2) & (3): Well, I have some experiences and script for the propagation which I'm more than willing to share with who ever becomes the maintainer of the pftijah branch --- surely not me ;-)

Let me know, what you think about this ...

Greetings from --- well, doesn't matter ;-)

Stefan

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:03:27AM +0100, Jan Flokstra wrote:

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Hi Stefan,

I'm going to start working on the possible integration of Tijah and Pathfinder. The idea at this moment is to create a Tijah index on Pathfinder documents. Then we will implement a nexi() function in Pathfinder which will do the query on this Tijah index and will return Pathfinder nodes which can be processed by Pathfinder. I tried to set up a separate module for this called 'pftijah' but this failed beacause at this moment I need to be very close to Pathfinder. There will be quite a lot of people on this problem so we need a CVS repository. So we would like to have a special Pathfinder branch called 'PFTIJAH' from where we could do our experiments and distribute them. This branch could be a branch from the current HEAD or from an older stable version, whatever you consider the best solution. Is it possible that you or somebody else creates such a branch for us???

Regards, Jan Flokstra & Hennig Rode.

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