my second go at Arusha

Will:

Taking advantage of a break in my busy schedule, I've had a second go at
trying out Arusha.  Here's my after-action report:

--On the page http://ark.sourceforge.net/try-ark1.html (and elsewhere?),
  the ark-dev link in fact points to the ark-users link
  http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ark-users

--A really small nit:  Creating an 'ARK profile':  Why default to giving csh
  syntax (e.g., "setenv ARK_PROFILE ...")?  Why not sh or bash (or ...?)
  syntax (e.g., export ARK_PROFILE=...)?

--If, despite your urgings, the user has not set ARK_PROFILE, couldn't you
  have the code default to looking for $HOME/.ark_profile (or ~/.ark_profile)?

--Slight annoyance:  "You need to change the *** CONFIGURE ME *** section.
  In fact, the team.xml file has it as "CONFIGURE-ME" (with a hyphen).

--Test drive with try-ark.  Says:  "./try-ark", but there was no earlier
  directive to cd to the try-ark directory.  I had to do a 'find' operation
  to locate the actual try-ark script.  Better:
  $ARK_SRC/myteam1/try-ark/try-ark

--$ try-ark/try-ark | tee /tmp/try-ark.out

  try-ark/try-ark: warning: this script may be overly paranoid and, um, wrong...
  + ./arkcmd package reveal --verbose --use-deps=max arkbase
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "./arkcmd", line 79, in ?
      main()
    File "./arkcmd", line 66, in main
      things_mgr.doToolSubcommand()
    File "./ark/thing.py", line 175, in doToolSubcommand
      victims       = self.unpackSpecs(ark_ctrl.cmdLineNonOptions())
    File "./ark/thing.py", line 108, in unpackSpecs
      thing = self.lookup(thing_name,team_id)
    File "./ark/thing.py", line 69, in lookup
      team_id = ark.team.ACTING_TEAM().id
    File "./ark/team.py", line 55, in ACTING_TEAM
      _ActingTeam.instance = ArkTeam(acting_team_id)
    File "./ark/team.py", line 135, in __init__
      (self._is_prototype, xml_version, self._xmlf) = xml_file.read(explicit_filename="%s/team.xml" % (ark.control.ArkControl().repository(team_id)))
    File "./ark/xmlfile.py", line 137, in read
      import xml.dom.core
  ImportError: No module named core

  [berto@localhost myteam1]$ find . -name \*core\* -exec ls -ld {} \;

  [berto@localhost myteam1]$ cd ..

  [berto@localhost ark]$ pwd
  /home/berto/ark/ark                [my $ARK_SRC dir; /home/berto/ark is
                                      where I put all Arusha-related stuff,
                                      including earlier versions and notes]

  [berto@localhost ark]$ find . -name \*core\* -exec ls -ld {} \;
  -rw-------    1 berto    berto        1943 May 29 16:43 ./sidai/package/innoveda-hdlscore.xml

  [berto@localhost ark]$ ls
  ARK/  myteam1/  sample1/  sidai/  try-ark/

  ARK, sample1, and sidai are all direct, unmodified CVS checkouts.
  (Thanks, BTW, for fixing the case sensitivities.)

  myteam1 is sample1 suitably modified (I think) per your instructions.

  try-ark is my <test-dir>.

So, I am stumped again.  Where is this xml.dom.core file?

      import xml.dom.core
  ImportError: No module named core

Any hints?

Will, I have to commend you for correcting mistakes in the instructions,
removing the cruft, and in general streamlining the procedure.  Aside from
the new nits I've picked above, everything looks good--until my point of
failure.

What do I do next?

Berto

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