Beta 9

[Matt Jones]

Hey Peter,

Sorry for the silence.  I was on vacation the week before last, and we 
were all meeting about our various projects last week, so we weren't on 
IRC and email.  We spent a bunch of time reviewing the current EML 
changes the day before you sent your email with the attachments, and we 
came up with a simpler way to handle the "content" problem.  I'll send 
an email on Monday and check in the proposed approach too.  While I do 
so, I'll try to integrate your changes in the set of files you sent.

If you want to check your changed files in as a branch, this is how you 
would do it:

1) Check out a clean copy of eml:
	cvs checkout -P eml (or "cvs update -d -P -A" in an existing working dir)
2)cd into the eml directory
3)Create a branch:
	cvs tag -b EML_MCCARTNEY
4)Update your copy to use the branch:
	cvs update -d -P -r EML_MCCARTNEY
5)Put your changes in place by either copying the files on top of the 
existing ones or editing the existing ones.
6)Commit the changes to the branch
	cvs commit
7)If you want to continue working on the branch, just keep working on 
your current working copy.  To revert back to the trunk, use:
	cvs update -d -P -A

That's about it.  Talk to you soon!

Matt

Peter McCartney wrote:
> Hi gang. The surf must really be up, cause theres been ZERO traffic on 
> eml . Im afraid that with the LTER workshop coming up we are at a 
> critical decision point. We had a meeting yesterday and decided that if 
> we had some assurance that beta9 is going to look pretty much like the 
> files i distributed in my last email, then we have just barely time to 
> convert our software over to those schemas prior to the workshop. If 
> there are substantial objections to those files, then its probably a 
> sign that we have more discussion facing us and will thus have little 
> alternative but to conduct the workshop with our software as it is based 
> on the previous files we had which as you know leaves the asu and nceas 
> tools less compatible than they will be under the final. Have you all 
> reached any decisions as the timetable for converting morhpo?
> 
> Does anyone have a comment on the files i sent around? I have been 
> reluctant to check them in as they contain some pretty unilateral edits 
> in order to get everthing consistent with how we said we were going to 
> do it and to get the nesting done in what i thought was a least 
> complicated way. If someone can tell me how to put them in as a branch 
> ill do it so that they arent floating free....
> 
> 
> Peter McCartney(peter.mccartney at asu.edu)
> Center for Environmental Studies
> Arizona State University
> 



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