w3: rotd on the web & mcorba release.

[Tyson Dowd]

Hi,

These two changes will be committed separately.
DJ should look at them.

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download/include/rotd.inc:
	Make the releases of the day downloadable from the web and the
	ftp site.
	Re-arrange the text to make the downloads easy to see, and
	put the waffle further down. 

include/mcorba.inc:
news/mcorba_newsdb.inc:
	Release MCORBA 0.1.
	Make it downloadable from the web and the ftp site.

Index: download/include/rotd.inc
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/w3/download/include/rotd.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 rotd.inc
--- rotd.inc	1998/09/21 06:46:12	1.2
+++ rotd.inc	1998/09/23 04:58:11
@@ -11,25 +11,48 @@
 snapshot of the development system.  This is called a "release of the
 day (ROTD)" and is given a version number "rotd-YYYY-MM-DD" according to
 the date it was built.  When the compiler passes all its tests, a ROTD
-is put into the beta-releases directory of the 
-<A HREF="ftp://turiel.cs.mu.OZ.AU/pub/mercury/beta-releases/">
-Mercury ftp site</A>.
-The Mercury compiler is written in Mercury, and compiles Mercury into
-C code.  These releases contain the Mercury code and the generated C
-code for the compiler.  You need a C compiler (such as gcc) to build
-the compiler and runtime system.  Once built, the Mercury compiler is
-capable of generating its own C code (the process of getting a compiler
-to compile itself is called <em>bootstrapping</em>, because it is like
-the compiler lifting itself up by its own boot straps).
+is put into the beta-releases directory.
 <p>
+<B>Download releases of the day:</b>
+<ul>
+<li> <A HREF="<? echo $root; ?>/download/files/beta-releases/">
+Mercury web site</A><br>
+<li> <A HREF="ftp://turiel.cs.mu.OZ.AU/pub/mercury/beta-releases/">
+Mercury ftp site</A>
+</ul>
 
+<H3> Unstable ROTDS </H3>
+
 For some people, the cutting edge is not enough, and they want the
 bleeding edge.  To help these developers, we have an <em>unstable</em>
 release of the day.  This is just like a ROTD, but may not have passed
 all its tests.  It is marked with a version number
-"rotd-YYYY-MM-DD-unstable", and is also available on the
-<A HREF="ftp://turiel.cs.mu.OZ.AU/pub/mercury/beta-releases/">
-Mercury ftp site</A>.
+"rotd-YYYY-MM-DD-unstable".
+<p>
+<B>Download unstable releases of the day:</b>
+<ul>
+<li> <A HREF="<? echo $root; ?>/download/files/beta-releases/">
+Mercury web site</A><br>
+<li> <A HREF="ftp://turiel.cs.mu.OZ.AU/pub/mercury/beta-releases/">
+Mercury ftp site</A>
+</ul>
+
+<H3> Contents of the ROTDS </H3>
+
+The Mercury compiler is written in Mercury, and compiles Mercury into C
+code.  These releases contain the Mercury code and the generated C code
+for the compiler.  You need a C compiler (such as gcc) to build the
+compiler and runtime system.  Once built, the Mercury compiler is
+capable of generating its own C code (the process of getting a compiler
+to compile itself is called <em>bootstrapping</em>, because it is like
+the compiler lifting itself up by its own boot straps).
+<p>
+Numbered releases often have binary packages created, where even the
+C code has been pre-compiled, and you simply need to install the
+libraries and executables.
+If we have enough processing power, we may someday do the same for
+releases of the day, but at the moment you need to do the final step
+of compilation yourself.
 <p>
 Please treat ROTDs with caution -- although they are often very
 useful and reasonably stable, they are not widely tested, and
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Index: include/mcorba.inc
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/w3/include/mcorba.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 mcorba.inc
--- mcorba.inc	1998/09/21 08:49:03	1.3
+++ mcorba.inc	1998/09/23 04:58:12
@@ -13,13 +13,22 @@
 
 <h3> Download MCORBA </h3>
 
-MCORBA is very much a work-in-progress, however we expect to have
+MCORBA is very much a work-in-progress, however we expect to soon have
 enough written so that you can start using it to develop applications.
+For the moment the most important thing missing from the binding is
+some of the generated C++ code.  You presently use the translator to
+see how IDL is transformed into Mercury.
+<P>
+<B>Download MCORBA:</B>
+<ul>
+<li> <A HREF="<? echo $root; ?>/download/files/mcorba/">
+Mercury web site</A><br>
+<li> <A HREF="ftp://turiel.cs.mu.OZ.AU/pub/mercury/mcorba/">
+Mercury ftp site</A>
+</ul>
 
-We are still cleaning up the MCORBA code to prepare for distribution.
-We expect to make a preliminary release very soon.
-MCORBA will be distributed under the GPL for the translator,
-and LGPL for the runtime library.
+MCORBA is distributed under the GNU GPL for the translator,
+and GNU LGPL for the runtime library.
 <p>
 You will need a copy of omniORB2, which you can freely download
 from the <a href="http://www.orl.co.uk/omniORB/omniORB.html">
Index: news/mcorba_newsdb.inc
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/w3/news/mcorba_newsdb.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 mcorba_newsdb.inc
--- mcorba_newsdb.inc	1998/09/22 14:44:14	1.2
+++ mcorba_newsdb.inc	1998/09/23 04:58:13
@@ -16,6 +16,15 @@
 
 $mcorba_newsdb = array(
 
+"23 Sep 1998" => array("MCORBA 0.1 available for download.",
+
+"The first release of MCORBA has been placed on the web site for
+download.  It is not yet complete, but enough is there that you
+can see what transformations are done.  The most important thing
+that is missing at the moment is the generation of some of the
+C++ code."
+),
+
 "21 Sep 1998" => array("MCORBA web page added.",
 
 "We've just added this page to the Mercury web pages."


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