[Ns-developers] ns-2 release candidate available for testing

[Tom Henderson]

Tom Henderson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've posted some new release candidates for the following packages:
> 
> ns-2.34
> nam-1.14
> ns-allinone-2.34
> 
> They are available at the following location:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=149743
> 
> ns-2.34 is mainly a maintenance release with the following major 
> differences from ns-2.33:
> 1) AOMDV (On-demand Multipath Distance Vector Routing in Ad Hoc 
> Networks) implementation
> 2) Tmix synthetic Internet traffic generation tool
> 3) Collection of bug fixes for 802.11Ext model
> 
> In addition, the recent Linux distributions (especially Fedora Core 10) 
> started to have problems with the previous releases, so there are some 
> fixes aimed at better 64-bit support and support for Fedora Core 10.
> 
> These packages still rely on the 8.4 series of Tcl/Tk.  I had hoped to 
> release these a while back but I was trying to bump them to Tcl/Tk-8.5 
> (especially thanks to patches from Amir Habibi).  However, after some 
> internal testing of some release candidates with Tcl/Tk-8.5, I decided 
> that it would be safer to make the transition after this release. 
> Therefore, if your platform supports tcl/tk development packages only 
> for version 8.5 (I think FC10 is the main one in this category) please 
> use the ns-allinone-2.34 version for now.
> 
> How you can help
> ---------------
> 
> Please give these packages a try on your system.  If you encounter a 
> problem, please first download the equivalent package for the previous 
> version (i.e., ns-2.33 or nam-1.13) and see if you get the same problem 
> or if we are introducing a new problem.  Then let me know, and cc the 
> ns-developers list.  Please specify as much detail as you can about the 
> system (operating system version, CPU architecture, gcc version, etc.). 
>  If you can send in a patch that fixes any problem, this is even better.
> 
> If there aren't any major problems, we can make this a real release at 
> the beginning of June, or else I'll create new release candidates as 
> needed.
> 

Just a brief update on this status-- I'm waiting for a bugfix patch from 
the 802.11Ext team (later this week), and then I think we can make this 
release.  I haven't heard any complaints about the build.

- Tom