Release Contents

The Shore Software distribution consists of documentation, binary, and source releases. These are briefly described below. Additional information is available in the installation manual.

Documentation Release

The documentation release consists of HTML and Postscript versions (in docs.html/ and docs.ps/, respectively) of the following documents:

• The Shore Release (this document)
• Shore Software Installation Manual
• An Overview of SHORE
• Glossary of Shore Terms
• How to Submit a Problem Report
• Documents for Users of SDL and the Shore Server
  • A list of all the manual pages
    
  • Configuring and Running the Shore Server
    and related manual pages:
    • options(SVAS)
    • environment(SVAS)
    • sshutdown(SVAS)
    • mount(SVAS)
    • smount(SHORE)
  • Shore Data Language Reference Manual
    and related manual pages:
    • Manual pages for using the SDL compiler and the SDL C++ language binding,
    • Manual pages for the Shore Object Cache and Unix-compatibility classes
  • Getting Started with Shore
    and miscellaneous helpful documents:
    • Handling Errors
    • Scanning Directories
    • Scanning Pools
• Documents for Value-Added Server Writers (using the Storage Manager)
  • The Shore Storage Manager Programming Interface
  • Manual Pages for the Storage Manager
    • Storage Manager proper
    • Foundation classes
    • Thread package
    • Common utility classes
  • Writing Value-Added Servers with the Shore Storage Manager
    a tutorial on using the Storage Manager
• Project Plans
• Guide to the Shore Source Code

In addition, source code for example programs, including an implementation of the OO7 Benchmark, is included in the examples directory.

Binary Release

Shore binary releases are made for SPARC and X86 Solaris only.

A binary release consists of the SDL compiler, run-time library to be linked with applications, the Shore Server executable, and utilities for mounting the Shore File System as an NFS file system. In addition, the libraries and header files for the Shore Storage Manager are included. The binary release is available with and without internal debugging support. The differences between the two are as follows:

• Debugging release:
  • Compiled with debugging symbols (-g)
  • Compiled with extra auditing/debugging (-DDEBUG)
  • Compiled with simple optimization (-O)
  • Executables are considerably larger and slower than their no-debugging counterparts.
• No-Debugging release:
  • Compiled without debugging symbols
  • Compiled without extra auditing/debugging (-UDEBUG)
  • Compiled with more optimization (-O2)

Source Release

The source release contains the source tree and tools for building everything in the binary release.