
EXACT 1.0.0

A python module for defining and managing experimental software tests.

  http://software.sandia.gov/Acro/EXACT

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Jon Berry (project lead)

  Sandia National Laboratories
  jberry@sandia.gov 

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License.

EXACT is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.  It is
free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 1 of the License, or (at your option) any
later version.  A copy of this license is included in the LICENSE file,
and is also available online from http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html.
Also refer to the COPYRIGHT file for important U.S. Government legal
notices.

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Installation.

EXACT can be used without any installation.  However, the C and C++
codes in EXACT can only currently be built within Acro.

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Dependencies.

Some EXACT C and C++ codes depend on the UTILIB utility library.

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Platforms.

The EXACT python module should work on virtually any variant of unix, and
it has been tested on PC platforms under Cygwin.  This code requires Python
version 2.4 or newer to ensure robust process control.

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Documentation.

See the examples in the EXACT test directory: exact/test/*study.xml.

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Further Help.

This is a RESEARCH code and is the subject of continuing active
development.  Bug reports, suggestions for improvement, and required
changes for other machines/compilers are welcome, but these issues will
be addressed as funding and time permit.

Bugs can be reported via Bugzilla, at

	http://software.sandia.gov/bugzilla

