[ITP] OTcl, TclCL, ns, nam

[Harold L Hunt II]

[After the disaster that was my attempt to package cweb, I figured I 
will ask some questions before wasting time packaging something that is 
already available.]

I am intending to package "The Network Simulator - ns-2":
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http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/

 From the Ns homepage:
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"Ns is a discrete event simulator targeted at networking research. Ns 
provides substantial support for simulation of TCP, routing, and 
multicast protocols over wired and wireless (local and satellite) networks."

I am also intending to package "The Network Animator - Nam":
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http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/nam/

 From the Nam homepage:
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Nam is the Network Animator that animates simulations from ns.

Ns depends upon the 'OTcl' and 'TclCL' packages:
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http://otcl-tclcl.sourceforge.net/otcl/
http://otcl-tclcl.sourceforge.net/tclcl/

 From the OTcl page:
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"OTcl, short for MIT Object Tcl, is an extension to Tcl/Tk for 
object-oriented programming. It shouldn't be confused with the IXI 
Object Tcl extension by Dean Sheenan. (Sorry, but we both like the name 
and have been using it for a while.)"

 From the TclCL page:
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"TclCL (Tcl with classes) is a Tcl/C++ interface used by Mash, vic, vat, 
rtp_play, ns, and nam. It provides a layer of C++ glue over OTcl."



The overall goal here is to automate the installation of ns-2, along 
with the animation component, for myself and other students in my 
advanced networking class.


Nicolas Christin has an excellent step-by-step guide for compiling the 
whole of ns under Cygwin:

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~christin/ns-cygwin.shtml


I will need to start with packaging OTcl and TclCL before moving on to 
ns and Nam.


Any comments?

Harold