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Admin /
HomePageThis section of the website is primarily aimed at administrating the site and the software distribution system. None of the information is particularly relevant to end-users, and very little of it will be useful even to developers. In general, the website is run on a standard Apache webserver with the PmWiki content management system. The PrattIT department manages the Apache configuration, and we manage the PmWiki installation. Since PmWiki is just a set of PHP scripts and it uses flat-files to store the information, the process is fairly straightforward. See the standard PmWiki documentation for information on how to create new pages or edit old ones. The software distribution is handled through Subversion (SVN) -- see SubversionInfo -- and again, this is handled by the PrattIT department, though it resides on a different physical machine. PrattIT has even set up a script to copy over username and password information from the website (where users register) to the Subversion server (where they can download files). Note that the "code-viewer" or "code-browser" scripts are not quite working This was intended to provide wiki-like functionality to browsing and learning how the code works. It "mostly" works, but there are a number of quirks that haven't been finished yet. Note that the "text-viewer" or "build-test viewer" scripts are not quite working This was intended to provide an easy interface to text-output from unit-, build-, or system-tests -- you could just |