Developing emergent

From Emergent

Using emergent

Installing and building emergent

Developing emergent

This is the place to come to contribute to the development of Emergent.

Summer of Code 2008 -- plans for major coding this summer.

Contents 1 SVN Source Code Browser 2 Basic How-To's 3 Developer Design/Coding Docs 4 Install and Debug Misc Issues 5 Building packages 6 Documentation Generation 7 Release

SVN Source Code Browser

This shows the latest code under SVN, plus revision histories, etc, all within your web browser:

• Source code browser

Basic How-To's

• How to write a plugin
• How to debug the source
• How to submit a patch
• Merge tracking with subversion 1.5+
• Subversion admin -- developer/admin tasks on svn repository

Developer Design/Coding Docs

• Coding conventions -- how to format and structure your code to be consistent with teh rest of the system.
• Comment directives -- hints to the maketa type scanner that customize the appearance and function of members, methods, and classes.
• Design overview -- major design issues and decisions about all aspects of the software.
• CMake -- everything about CMake and Emergent's next generation build system

Install and Debug Misc Issues

• How to debug libtool binaries
• Making basic changes to configure.ac
• How to profile the code on OSX with gprof
• Notes on using bugzilla for developers.

Building packages

• Fedora: .rpm using Check Install or configure.
• K/Ubuntu: .deb using Check Install or the hard way.
• OSX: .pkg using PackageMaker, .app using configure, or UniversalBinary

• Helpful OSX Shell Scripts

Documentation Generation

• Generating dependency graphs from the source
• Using Doxygen
• Creating_ChangeLog for making a GNU compliant changelog

Release

• Release checklist