This is a mirror of the Mercurial repository on Sourceforge for a package that is a component of the GNV project for OpenVMS.
Its purpose is to provide a record of the source used for the GNV packaged version of the product.
The original unmodified source is located in the reference/ directory and
all OpenVMS-specific changes that have not been checked into the parent
repository are located in the vms_source/ directory.
An OpenVMS concealed logical name of src_root: is for the reference directory
and an OpenVMS concealed logical name of vms_root: is set to the vms_source
directory.
These are kept separate to make it easy to determine what OpenVMS-specific
changes where made and to allow retargeting the src_root: to a different
version to easily support maintaining multiple versions such as release,
beta, and trunk at the same time.
The user can then create a logical name of lcl_root: for the directory that
will contain the build products. The lcl_root: directory tree is the only
directory tree that the build procedure should be modifying.
A logical name search list of prj_root: is set to lcl_root:,vms_root:,src_root:
for building the package.
Git was chosen for managing jhamby's fork of this source code repository as there
is now a git client that can execute directly on OpenVMS. This repository
contains branch names of the form vm.n where m and n are respectively
the major and minor version numbers of the releases contained in the branch. The
releases within each branch are tagged with names of the form vm.n.u(b) where m
and n have the same interpretation as for branch names and u and b are the update
number and build number respectively of the release associated with the tag name.