Working With The Development Version

The Development Version of Cactus is, not surprisingly, the source code which is being actively worked on, this means that while it has all the latest features and bug fixes, it can also be subject to changes and instabilities on a day-to-day basis. If you are using the Development Version please:

• Be judicial in updating, sign up on the Mailing Lists to get information about new source code, only update when you have time to sort out any potential problems.
• Report any problems you find either using the Bug Tracking System, or to cactusmaint@cactuscode.org. If you know the solution to the problem, please send that as well.
• Let us know what you're doing with Cactus, what you're missing, and what you find hard to use. We welcome all suggestions and contributions.
• If you are using the developers version and have a problem compiling, please check the following:
  1. Make sure you are using the development version for both the Flesh and all the Toolkit thorns.
  2. If you have just updated your checkout, make sure that you got updated both the Flesh and Toolkit thorns, and if you are using raw cvs commands that you used update -d to get any new directories.
  3. If you have updated your checkout, and there was a change to any of the files in lib/sbin try a gmake <config>-rebuild
  4. If the problem is in your own thorns, check that you took notice of any changes reported in the CVS update messages and next release notices. You can find these all on these pages.
  5. Try a full recompilation by doing a gmake <config>-realclean before rebuilding. You shouldn't need to do this, we would probably like to hear about it if this solved your problem.
  6. Contact cactusmaint@cactuscode.org, make sure you tell us which machine architecture you are using and include the lines from the failed compilation.

Download

• ThornLists for use with the development version. The development version of Cactus may use renamed or new thorns.

Documentation

• User's, Maintainer's and Thorn Guide:

  The most up-to-date version of the different Guides can be found in the checked out development version of the Flesh (Cactus/doc/UsersGuide/, Cactus/doc/MaintGuide, and gmake ThornGuide), or a nightly updated version is distributed in various formats from these web pages.

• FAQ

• Next Release

  We try and add new features in the development version to the release notes

• Code Documentation

  Grdoc documentation
  Doxygen documentation