[reSIProcate] subversion best practice

[Alan Hawrylyshen]

On Dec 1, 2004, at 10.11, Shaun Dawson wrote:

> Folks,
>
>   Sorry for the dumb newbie questions, but what's the best practice
> for checking out resiprocate for the purposes of fiddling around and
> writing client programs?
>
>   Should I use http://scm.sipfoundry.org/rep/resiprocate? or
> http://scm.sipfoundry.org/rep/resiprocate/main?
>
>   If I use /resiprocate, is main the branch that I should decend into
> and compile?

Wow! Checking out /resiprocate (and not /resiprocate/main) would result 
it a LOT of code.  I don't recommend it.  From a best practice point of 
view it makes sense to checkout just /main.

>
>   Should I copy the branch I'm interested into a directory external to
> my subversion working directory for compiling?  If so, is there an
> automated way of doing that (in the Makefile, for instance)?
>

No, in general, there are two current approaches, sadly 1/3 the 
reSIProcate community uses the Makefile and files in build/ to do the 
building, 1/3 run the use-autotools.sh script and then autogen.sh.
(1/3 use Windows or Mac so they use the VC or IDE files).

If you DO use the autotools method, you can (after running 
use-autotools.sh and autogen.sh) make a clean compile directory. Around 
here, we build with:

svn co https://scm.resiprocate.org/rep/resiprocate/main
cd sip
sh use-autotools.sh
(Ignore SVN errors)
sh autogen.sh
mkdir compile
cd compile
../configure --enable-ipv6 --disable-elog --disable-static ...
make

'make install' isn't quite ready for prime-time. We are working on this 
at Jasomi and will try to 'clean-up' the headers and deps so that 
resiprocate can be installed in a system-friendly way.


>   Lastly, I've been all around the website and wiki, and haven't found
> this aspect of things very well documented.  It seems like the
> documentation was geared towards folks who already know what is going
> on.  Is there documentation that I'm not aware of that covers this
> sort of thing (a downloading and compile HOWTO, for example)?  If not,
> I'm in a good position to write some, as I'm coming from a position of
> complete ignorance.  What's the best place for that, the Wiki?  Would
> that be useful?
>

Sigh. You are very right. We have a dearth of get started doc. (We have 
a doc shortage in general).  We'd love your contributions to the Wiki 
and I (personally) think this is the 'right' place for them, but we 
need to agree on the formal home / policy of the wiki going forward... 
I know what Sipfoundry and the resiprocate project need to agree on the 
look & feel issues and support issues around the Wiki.  Certainly any 
content in the Wiki will be migrated to the ultimate solution -- so it 
will not be effort wasted.

> (Warning: If the answer is yes, be prepared for an onslaught of even
> dumber questions as I try to formalize what puny knowledge I have
> managed to amass :))
>

I consider ourselves happily warned.

> thanks,
>   Shaun
>

No, Thank you.

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