[Ns-developers] ns-2 release plans

[tomh@tomh.org]

On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:37:24 -0800, Tom Henderson <tomh at tomh.org> wrote:
> Since the last ns-2 release, I applied a few patches (most recently from

> Amir Habibi and Maxime de Roucy) to deal with gcc evolution, valgrind 
> warnings, and the migration to Tcl/Tk version 8.5 on many distributions,

> as well as some SCTP model extensions.  I have heard from at least one 
> contributor about interest in merging new models to ns-2 before the next

> release.  So, I'd like to suggest that would-be contributors post their 
> code for review and possible merge in the month of January, and I will 
> make a release after that code is merged if there are no major issues. 
> Also, if there is a bug-fixing patch that has been previously posted and

> forgotten about, please remind me.
> 
> I posted some initial release candidates here in case anyone wants to 
> test them for their local platform:
> http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/Roadmap
> 

I posted some new release candidates for ns-2 packages, linked from the
wiki here:
http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/Roadmap#Release_schedule

Also in the wiki is a list of bugs and possible merge items that have been
socialized this year.  Please add to the list if I've forgotten issues.

The main change since the last release candidates has been that I cut over
the allinone packages (and otcl/tclcl) to Tcl/Tk 8.5 series, due to
problems that arose with Cygwin's 1.7.1 release.  I would appreciate some
feedback on the Cygwin builds (and patches if you find problems) because
presently there are no official releases that work on Cygwin 1.7.1.  If
this goes smoothly I will look at posting an ns-allinone-2.34-cygwin-1.7.1
version on Sourceforge so that users will not be blocked on this in the
meantime.

Since we still have a list of items to merge in ns-2 (protocol model
patches, and getting rid of some warnings), what I think would be most
useful at this point is for people to try these packages out on their
favorite platform and report any issues or patches regarding the build
system.  I tested them on Linux where they work smoothly for me and on
Cygwin and OS X where they seem to mostly work now, although I don't have a
modern OS X installation anymore.

Tom