NAME¶

tkaegis - GUI interface for Aegis, using TCL/TK

SYNOPSIS¶

tkaegis

DESCRIPTION¶

The tkaegis command is used to provide a GUI interface to Aegis. Its use should be self-evident to anyone familiar with Aegis.

There are some areas where tkaegis is still missing functionality; these are primarily related to project and change attributes that are not yet included in the dialogs, and also issues such as configuring the change and history tools, the architectures, and so on.

INSTALLATION¶

First, you will need Tcl/Tk installed, and will need to modify the path in the first line of tkaegis to reflect the path of your Tk wish interpreter. Hopefully, the ./configure script took care of this.

Next, you may need to modify some important variables that occur immediately below these comments, to specify the architecture, project base directory, and the editor you are using (if you leave that blank, tkaegis will try to determine the editor to use from the EDITOR environment variable; if that fails, it will fall back to emacs or vi).

NAVIGATION¶

When you run tkaegis, a window will appear with a menu at the top. The window is used to display the output of aegis commands and some other feedback. The menu will initially have only two items, Project and Help. At this stage the Help menu only has an About dialog box.

The Project menu will allow you to create new projects, select from your existing projects, clear the contents of the feedback window, or exit the program. If you create a new project, a dialog box will appear allowing you to enter the project name, directory, and initial branch number. When you press OK the project will be created and should then appear in the Project menu.

If you select an existing project, a new option will be added to the Project menu, allowing you to delete the project. A Branch menu will also appear. This is similar to the Project menu, but allows you to create, delete, or select project branches.

If you select a branch in the branch menu, a Role menu will appear. This will allow you to choose the role that you will be playing, namely one of administrator, developer, reviewer, or integrator. tkaegis uses your UNIX login name and the names of the roleplayers associated with the project and branch, to determine which of the roles it will allow you to choose. If you create a new project, only the administrator role will appear.

Selecting a role will put you in a `mode', which will determine what other menus appear and what you can do next. Each mode will now be described in turn, by giving a brief description of the role-specific menu hierarchy. Following the name of each menu item is the corresponding aegis command, where applicable.

ADMINISTRATOR MODE¶

In this mode, you can modify the staff and roles associated with the branch, and create, remove, and change the attributes of change requests, and view all the change requests.

Admin:

Staff:

DEVELOPER MODE¶

This mode is used by developers. When entering this mode, the Develop menu will appear, but no others. A change must be selected after which the other menus will appear. If there is only one change awaiting development, this will be auto-selected.

Develop:

File:

Build:

Test:

REVIEWER MODE¶

In this mode you are able to review changes.

Review:

INTEGRATOR MODE¶

In this mode you can perform integration activities.

Integrate:

SEE ALSO¶

tkaeca(1)

GUI interface for the aeca(1) command.

tkaenc(1)

GUI interface for the aenc(1) command.

tkaepa(1)

GUI interface for the aepa(1) command.

COPYRIGHT¶

tkaegis version 4.24.3
Copyright © 1995, 1999 Graham Wheeler

AUTHOR¶

Graham Wheeler <gram@cdsec.com>
Citadel Data Security