Re: [cobalt-developers] CMU on the 550

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Björklund wrote:

> Anyone knows exactly *what* kinds of problems exist with CMU on the 550?

Jeff Bilicki wrote (perhaps here?) that he couldn't get it working, so
he disabled it.

> So far, what I've seen is that cmuExport exports *some kind* of xml
> while cmuImport refuses to read it due to the code exiting with a
> "We currently do not support RaQ550 to RaQ550 migrations" switch.

That's what he put into the code because (he said) he didn't have the
time to sufficiently debug it.

> So in effect, the CMU on the 550 is write-only (kinda useless)...

Well cmuExport is rather worthless, cmuImport seems to work fine from
RaQ4.

> I tried disabling those lines, and it seemed to work OK - local
> on the test machine? Restoring a site that was deleted, that is.
> (a very specialized form of a 550->500 migration, but ok for backup)
> Have yet to try moving to another machine or other RaQ platform.
> Or try any more complex migrations, for that matter.

I'd say ask Jeff; he wrote it, he decided it didn't work sufficiently
well enough to release.

> This was using the CMU 2.43 beta from Jeff's personal site,
> as Sun seems uninterested in providing a CMU for the RaQ 550 ?

Sad.  But apparrently true.

> PS. Anyone know the license status of this code ? (the CMU)
>     The RPM file says "GPL", and the source just says "copyright"
>     Assuming it's the Sun Binary Code License, or somesuch.

If the RPM file says GPL then I'd say it's GPL.  Whereas I'm not a
lawyer, if Jeff wrote GPL when he created the RPM, then it is.

Jeff
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