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3.2 Latest unreleased development changes

Choose the development version if you want to live on the bleeding edge of Muse development or try out new features before release.

The Arch revision control system allows you to retrieve previous versions and select specific features and bug fixes. If you would like to contribute to Muse development, it is highly recommended that you use Arch, but this is not a requirement.

If you are new to Arch, you might find this tutorial helpful: http://www.mwolson.org/projects/ArchTutorial.html.

Downloading the Muse module with Arch and staying up-to-date involves the following steps.

  1. Install arch
  2. Register the archive.
              tla register-archive -f http://www.mwolson.org/archives/2005
         
  3. Download the Muse package.
              # Download Muse into the muse directory.
              tla get mwolson@gnu.org--2005/muse--main--1.0 muse
         
  4. List upstream changes that are missing from your local copy. Do this whenever you want to see whether new changes have been committed to Muse.
              # Change to the source directory you are interested in.
              cd muse/
              
              # Display the summary of changes
              tla missing --summary
         

  5. Update to the latest version by replaying missing changes.
              cd muse
              tla replay
         

There are other ways to interact with the Muse archive.

The latest development snapshot will be kept up-to-date since it is updated at the same time as the Arch repository.