[stellation-res] Repository Contents - Status Update

[Jim Wright - IBM Research <jwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Per my email of Sept 10, I've been working on bringing
the repository contents fully up to date.

Briefly: I ran into some technical glitches, now
resolved, but have not been able to finalize everything
by today as hoped.  I should be able to complete the
work when I return on Tuesday (I'm away Friday through
Monday for a family obligation).

The biggest issue was my flirtation with Java 1.4.1,
which I installed (on XP and Linux) last week.  While
things initially seemed to work (on XP), I've concluded
that the Eclipse R3.0 stream and the Java2 1.4.1 JRE do
not play nicely together.  (Classpaths are not built
when projects are imported; Eclipse malfunctions in
assorted ways ... not pretty.  I've added comments to
related Bugzilla entries for Eclipse Platform).
I also upgraded from RH Linux 7.3 to RH9 (and from
Win2K to Win XP) last week, requiring a full reinstall
of both systems; today I found out that a few things
were missed along the way...

As things stand, I have now rebuilt everything locally
(Eclipse GUI, Stellation core, VSF, Stim, the works)
with apparent success, and have connected to the
stellation.eclipse.org repository.  I've had to modify
build-stell.xml to avoid an unfortunate issue w.r.t.
/usr/local/bin on Linux (which is now used by various
other apps, so simply trashing it is _very_ rude).
Install docs still need to be updated, omitted files
checked in, extraneous files deleted .... but it
should be relatively straightforward, once I'm back in
NY again.

Regards,

Jim

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