Development

The Dim project is an open source community supported development effort. Every one is welcome to use, contribute or bring any support to the project. Contributions are welcome under the ISC type license.

Mailing list

The mailing list for users and developpers is dim@ml.free.fr.

You can subscribe by sending a mail with "subscribe" in the subject to dim-request@ml.free.fr.

The mailing list archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/dim@ml.free.fr/

Source repository

The source repository server is http://www.oligem.com/dim/wdim.php

To track it, once you have installed dim, run the following commands:

  $ mkdir dimjob; cd dimjob
  $ dim mkjob http://www.oligem.com/dim/wdim.php  # only once
  $ dim get  -a    # download new version archives
  $ dim import  -a # expand new archives on disk

All versions will be located under dimjob/.dimlib/item/dim/

Online access to the source tree through a web browser will be soon available.

Status and roadmap

Dim is to be considered alpha at this stage, approaching beta quickly. It's already in daily use for several months by the author, as its main versioning tool.

A lot of new concepts in dim were already validated in previous prototypes and their integration in the current project will happen fast.

dim roadmap

How to contribute

• Use dim. Test it, find and report bugs to the mailing list.
• Even better, provide fix patches, write documentation.
• Want to extend the dim functionalities in a specific way, add a new transfer method, integrate a binary diff, or generate reports ? Writing an extension is probably the best option.