CSE graduate enrichment seminar

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                         CVS, autoconf, and doxygen:
                   Getting your software package organized

                          by Michelle Strout (CSE)
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                        brought to you in part by
                   Graduate Student Association at UCSD


                             AP&M room 4301
                         Friday 2/8/02 at NOON

Almost everyone has a piece of software they created for their research.
Usually it is a mess and difficult even for the original programmer to use
and update.  We will look at how to take an existing "mess" and make it
more usable.  CVS (Concurrent Versions System) allows you to log changes
to your files, have multiple working directories of the same package (on
your laptop and work machine), and back out of hacked changes that just
don't work.  "Autoconf is a set of tools which helps make your code
configurable and portable to various versions of UNIX."  Using autoconf in
your package will give you the configure script which makes installing
things in unix so much easier.  Finally, "doxygen is a documentation
system for C++, Java, IDL (Corba, Microsoft and KDE-DCOP flavors) and C".

This seminar will be a quick and dirty introduction to CVS (Concurrent
Versions System), autoconf, and doxygen.  CVS has become an industry
standard in version control.  I will give some brief startup notes, talk
about the overall concept of CVS, and then discuss some of the trickier
aspects of using CVS. We will look at how to get a package so that it uses
autoconf and automake by doing an example.  Finally, we will briefly touch
on doxygen.