Development sources

I am using gnu-arch for maintanence of the BKchem sources. I don't feel expert enough to tell you all the advantages of arch over CVS or to tell you how to use it. In case you are interested here is some useful reading.

For those who would like to access my mirror of the development archives of BKchem, here is a short HOWTO:

  1. You have to get gnu-arch (tla). I cannot help you with that much - on Gentoo simply do:

    >> emerge tla

    as root.

  2. Register the archive you want to access:

    >> tla register-archive http://bkchem.zirael.org/arch/2004
Registering archive: beda@zirael.org--2004

  3. Get the meta-archive that serves as the entry point for fetching of all the necessary parts of bkchem:

    >> tla get -A beda@zirael.org--2004 bkchem-dist--devel bkchem-dev
some output

    The name bkchem-dev can be set to anything you want, it is a name for an directory to put the files into.

  4. Build the source tree:

    >> cd bkchem-dev
>> tla build-config distribution.arch
some long output

Now you should have the complete and (hopefully) working sources of bkchem in the directory bkchem as you would have in case you downloaded them as an archive from the website.