Organisation of the svn repository

Access to the svn repository is described here.

The root of the svn repository is split in three directories:

• trunk is the current version of TFEL. This branch is meant to be stable: one shall be able to create a new version of TFEL out of trunk at any time. New or experimental features shall be added in dedicated subdirectories of the branches directory described below. Note that many engineers at CEA works with the trunk in their daily work, so committing to trunk requires special care.
• tags, used to fix a new official version of TFEL. Once created, subdirectories in the tags repository can not be modified.
• branches contains forks of trunk where new or experimental features are developed. Once those developments finished and backported to trunk, the associated branches shall be erased.

Build systems and testing

TFEL supports two build systems (see the installation page for details). Although the cmake is the preferred build system, the support for the autotools is still mandatory.

New developments shall compile with both build systems. However, new tests can only be added in the cmake builds system but required files shall be distributed in source package created with the autotools. This is the case for mechanical behaviours tests.

To check that TFEL compiles with both build systems, we provide the check_all script at the root of the source directory. This script can be invoked as follows:

$ $SRCDIR/check_all [-j $NBPROCS]

where SRCDIR is the path to the source directory. The -j option allows the user to specify the number of jobs that the make command is allowed to run simultaneously.

Committing to trunk is only allowed if the check_all script runs successfully