Speaker
C. ARNAULT
(CNRS)
Description
Since its introduction in 1999, CMT is now used as a production tool
in many large software projects for physics research (ATLAS, LHCb,
Virgo, Auger, Planck). Although its basic concepts remain unchanged
since the beginning, proving their viability, it is still improving
and increasing its coverage of the configuration management
mechanisms. Two important evolutions have recently been introduced,
one for explicitly supporting multi-project environments, and the
other to specify and manage configuration activities.
The existing concept of package area is now extended to cover the
support of sub-projects structuring, with the possibility of assigning
configuration management properties (typically strategies) to each sub
project, allowing for instance to have installation area mechanisms
only applicable for some of them.
It is also possible to specify parameterized activities that will be
run on demand either through make or through an explicit activation
command, which ensures that the runtime environment is properly setup.
Primary author
C. ARNAULT
(CNRS)
