The bare minimum required to get started is a JDK, a JAXP 1.1 compliant parser, a command prompt (bash or Windows NT/2K), and Perl. Perl is only used at the moment for some of the publishing and notification, so it can be omitted.

It is highly recommended at this point that you review the description of the data definitions used by Gump, starting with the overview.

If prompted for the password, enter anoncvs

Two sample workspaces are provided, rubix and rubypad. Find the one that is closest to your needs and make a copy of it. The suggested name for the file you create is your host name.

Again, reference the overview to see how you can add projects, define your own profiles, and the modify which version of referenced projects you want to build.

You will also need to directly modify the gen.bat or gen.sh scripts to specify where to find the JAXP implementation to use. At the present time, recent releases of Xalan are recommended for performance reasons; but the JAXP reference implementation will likely catch up shortly.

Note: Yes, it is tacky that you should have to modify this file directly. Patches are welcome. Meanwhile, cvs does a fairly good job of merging changes.

Packages for which source is not easily accessible are not built by Gump. Where such packages are required prerequisites for building other projects, Gump allows binary versions of the package to be installed to satisfy the prerequisites. Your workspace definition specifies where installed packages are to be found.

A list of some of the packages you might want to install can be found here.

JDK 1.4 includes both jaxp and jsse which were previously available as separately installable packaged. The dependencies on these packages are now marked as optional. If you are using a JDK prior to 1.4, the packages must be installed. For JDK 1.4 and later the packages need not be installed and the version provided with the JDK will be utilised.