Cactus moves from CVS to Subversion
In April 2010 several organization changes were made for the distribution of the Cactus Code. The main changes are:
- Changing from GetCactus to GetComponents
- Move from CVS to Subversion
- Mail list for commit messages
- Thorns moving between arrangements
GetComponents
Cactus has moved from using GetCactus for checking out Cactus to a new tool: GetComponents. The new thorn list language is not very different from the old, but it now directly contains information about the flesh and can include non-thorn utilities (e.g. SimFactory).
See the documentation page for a full description. Example new format thornlists are provided for the Cactus Computational Toolkit (ComputationalToolkit.th) and the Einstein Toolkit (einsteintoolkit.th).
CVS to Subversion
After using CVS for code development and distribution for over a decade, we have migrated to Subversion to take advantage of more capabilties. As with CVS, Subversion has the concept of a single, central repository.
The command line tool ‘svn’ has similar sub-commands to cvs, e.g.
svn checkout svn diff svn update svn commit
The server cvs.cactuscode.org will not be used in the future. All repositories hosted at this server have been migrated to svn.cactuscode.org. This new server can be accessed using a Subversion client or viewed using a web client (pointed to https://svn.cactuscode.org). Read-only access to some of the repositories is also available using http.
The Cactus flesh can now be found using the URL
https://svn.cactuscode.org/flesh/trunk/
The Cactus arrangements can be found using
https://svn.cactuscode.org/arrangements/ARRANGEMENT/THORN/trunk where
ARRANGEMENT/THORN could e.g. be CactusBase/Time.
Projects which are not directly maintained by the Cactus team but are
hosted on the cactuscode server (found under /arrangements in CVS) can
be found at https://svn.cactuscode.org/projects/
Commit messages
Commit messages will in the future go to the mailing list commits@cactuscode.org. Subscribed users to old lists have been copied over to this new list.
Thorns moving
Some previously external thorns have been included into Cactus, and some former Cactus thorns (CactusEinstein) have been moved to a separate project (EinsteinToolkit). The following table summarizes the old and new locations of thorns which have moved, and includes thorns moving into the Einstein Toolkit. A very small number thorns changed name, also indicated in this table.
| Old arrangement | Thorn | New arrangement (New thorn name) |
|---|---|---|
| AEIDevelopment | InterpToArray | CactusNumerical |
| AEIThorns | AHFinderDirect | EinsteinAnalysis |
| AEIThorns | CalcK | EinsteinAnalysis |
| AEIThorns | Constants | EinsteinBase |
| AEIThorns | Dissipation | CactusNumerical |
| AEIThorns | EHFinder | EinsteinAnalysis |
| AEIThorns | Exact | EinsteinInitialData |
| AEIThorns | Formaline | CactusUtils |
| AEIThorns | Fortran | CactusBase |
| AEIThorns | IDConstraintViolate | EinsteinInitialData |
| AEIThorns | IDFileADM | EinsteinInitialData |
| AEIThorns | Nice | CactusUtils |
| AEIThorns | NoExcision | EinsteinInitialData |
| AEIThorns | Noise | CactusNumerical |
| AEIThorns | Norms | CactusNumerical |
| AEIThorns | ReflectionSymmetry | CactusNumerical |
| AEIThorns | RotatingSymmetry180 | CactusNumerical |
| AEIThorns | RotatingSymmetry90 | CactusNumerical |
| AEIThorns | SphericalSurface | CactusNumerical |
| AEIThorns | TwoPunctures | EinsteinInitialData |
| Excision | LEGOExcision | EinsteinEvolve |
| PerturbedBH | DistortedBHIVP | EinsteinInitialData |
| PerturbedBH | IDAxiOddBrillBH | EinsteinInitialData |
| PerturbedBH | RotatingDBHIVP | EinsteinInitialData |
| BetaThorns | Cartoon2D | CactusNumerical |
| CactusBase | MoL | CactusNumerical |
| CactusEinstein | ADMAnalysis | EinsteinAnalysis |
| CactusEinstein | ADMBase | EinsteinBase |
| CactusEinstein | ADMConstraints | EinsteinAnalysis |
| CactusEinstein | ADMCoupling | EinsteinBase |
| CactusEinstein | ADMMacros | EinsteinBase |
| CactusEinstein | AHFinder | EinsteinAnalysis |
| CactusEinstein | CoordGauge | EinsteinBase |
| CactusEinstein | Extract | EinsteinAnalysis |
| CactusEinstein | HydroBase | EinsteinBase |
| CactusEinstein | IDAnalyticBH | EinsteinInitialData |
| CactusEinstein | IDAxiBrillBH | EinsteinInitialData |
| CactusEinstein | IDBrillData | EinsteinInitialData |
| CactusEinstein | IDLinearWaves | EinsteinInitialData |
| CactusEinstein | SpaceMask | CactusNumerical |
| CactusEinstein | StaticConformal | EinsteinBase |
| CactusEinstein | TmunuBase | EinsteinBase |
| CactusEOS | EOS_Base | EinsteinBase |
| CactusEOS | EOSG_Base | EinsteinBase |
| CactusEOS | EOSG_Hybrid | EinsteinEOS |
| CactusEOS | EOSG_IdealFluid | EinsteinEOS |
| CactusEOS | EOSG_Polytrope | EinsteinEOS |
| CactusEOS | EOS_Hybrid | EinsteinEOS |
| CactusEOS | EOS_Ideal_Fluid | EinsteinEOS (EOS_IdealFluid) |
| CactusEOS | EOS_Polytrope | EinsteinEOS |
| CIGR | Hydro_Analysis | EinsteinAnalysis |
| CIGR | Whisky | EinsteinEvolve (GRHydro) |
| CIGR | Whisky_Init_Data | EinsteinInitialData (GRHydro_InitData) |
| CIGR | Whisky_TOVSolverC | EinsteinInitialData (TOVSolver) |
| LSUThorns | ID_Bin_BH | EinsteinInitialData (Meudon_Bin_BH) |
| LSUThorns | ID_Bin_NS | EinsteinInitialData (Meudon_Bin_NS) |
| LSUThorns | ID_Mag_NS | EinsteinInitialData (Meudon_Mag_NS) |
| LSUThorns | NewRad | EinsteinEvolve |
| TAT | Periodic | CactusNumerical |
| TAT | Slab | CactusNumerical |
| TAT | SlabTest | CactusNumerical |
| TAT | TGRtensor | EinsteinUtils |
| Waves | Multipole | EinsteinAnalysis |
| Waves | WeylScal4 | EinsteinAnalysis |