swarm directory name (was Re: Congrats & trivia)

[Theodore C. Belding]

Hi-
Since Swarm is meant to be a tool that will be around for the long term and
can be used as a common reference point by different researchers, I think
many people will want to keep to several different versions around.  (If
you *really* want to make sure you're duplicating somebody's results, you
have to use the same Swarm version.)  I know we do that here at Michigan,
since we still have applications that only compile under older Swarm
versions.  Would it be possible to have the tar file expand into a
directory that is named something like "swarm-<version>"?  This is the way
Tcl/Tk is distributed, for instance.  I think the fact that many of us are
still using Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0 for Swarm instead of the current versions shows
that this is important.

Congratulations to the Swarm team!
-Ted

At 11:56 PM -0800 2/3/97, Benedikt Stefansson wrote:
>a) For those who are downloading the new release note that the tar file
>unpacks into a directory called swarm. You might want to be careful
>about where you unpack it, I managed to ovewrite old Makefiles and
>source directories when I unpacked my copy. The old binaries were not
>affected (dirty secret: my Linux box has no backup)

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Ted Belding                      <mailto:address@hidden>
University of Michigan Program for the Study of Complex Systems
<http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~streak/>