Announce: sumo - a tool for automated builds of EPICS support modules

[Goetz Pfeiffer <Goetz.Pfeiffer@helmholtz-berlin.de>]

Hello everybody,

I would like to announce sumo, a tool to manage and build EPICS support
modules.

The support module manager sumo is a program to build consistent sets of EPICS
support modules and use them in EPICS applications.

Some of the features are:

- All module dependencies are held in a JSON dependency database.

- The dependency database can be managed automatically with a version control
  system in order to keep it in sync on a number of build hosts.

- In order to migrate your existing support module installation a scanner
  program creates a dependency database from existing support directories.

- The program builds consistent sets of EPICS support modules.

- The program fetches module source code from various sources, directories, tar
  files or version control systems (currently git, mercurial or darcs).
 
- If a set of support modules is to be used in an application a RELEASE is
  generated with all the relevant paths.

About 12 months ago, sumo was introduced at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for
the BESSY II controlsystem. Since that time we use it to build our EPICS support
modules and to configure our EPICS applications.

The program is available under GNU public license version 3.

Here is the SUMO homepage:

http://epics-sumo.sourceforge.net

Greetings

  Goetz Pfeiffer

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