The traditionnal Cedar way to retrieve software is very time-consuming when you want to retrieve a few hundred thousand lines of code which change quite often. This package exports a command, BringDATools, similar in functionality to Bringover, but that uses a root DF file (DATools.df) and an enhanced DF software (DFPackageExtras), .

Public parts of Cedar and CedarChest imports are brough in ///7.0/Commands, while other files are brought in your current directory. This is the easiest way to bringover DA (it takes far less time than bringovering all packages!). Nevertheless, the first time you want to bringover all the software in a virgin directory, you must do a "PushV Commands; Bringover -pm CopyFromVersionMap; Pop; CopyFromVersionMap [DATools]<DATools7.0>DAToolsVersionMaps>DATools; BringDATools". BringDATools also assumes that you have a recent version of Environment.df in ///7.0/Commands.

BringDATools is conservative about the files it copies. You might get at the end of the command tool a list of all files it did not bring. Use a standard DFTool to really bring them, if that is what you want, or carefully change the flags of BringDATools. Current flags are:

BringDATools takes several minutes (much more the first time in a session). Start it, and take a coffee, or read your mail ...