[ns] [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.
> 

I updated the 802.11Ext model based on the new patch, fixed a small bug
in the satellite code, and created a new release candidate (RC2) for
ns-allinone-2.34 and ns-2.34 packages:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=149743

I plan to make these the official releases on Wednesday unless other
issues arise.

- Tom