Am 01.11.2010 03:24, schrieb shan chak:
My name is shankhs, I love trekking, running and volleyball, I am a C/C++ developer. My work is mostly to create softwares to help hardware designers. I develop my apps mostly using vi, but a few days back my friend suggested geany and I liked it a lot and now I am using geany for lots of dev works. Now since geany is open source I want to contribute back to the community.
Welcome to Geany and great that you like to add something to it. We really appreciate this.
Can anyone please help me in following things:
- I believe the source control is svn?
Yes. You can find more info about that at http://www.geany.org/Download/SVN But there is also a git mirror available managed by the Geany developers you might like to pull from http://git.geany.org/
- Which are the libraries ( not standard C ones ) being used in
geany?I figured out gtk+ 2, are there any more libraries ?
libvte is optional. Rest is pretty much default (beside GTK of course)
- Can anybody mentor me?
Depending on your goal :)
- There is a lot of auto-generated code in geany, can I get a
stripped source code which I can compile with plain gcc and and not use autogen.sh? It becomes a lot easier to understand then.
Well, not sure whats your plans but if I understand you correct, this will not be possible as there is no different tools or something.
- Which is the better way to start a) try to reproduce some bugs then
create a patch or b) implement some requested feature?
I guess this doesn't matter. But maybe fixing a minor bug would be a good start.
- Can I be assigned a bug or a feature request? OR is this
voluntary?how does this works? I think its better if admins assign me a bug ( or feature) or two.
You could have a look at either http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=153444&atid=787791 (bugs) or http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=153444&atid=787794 (feature) whether you can find soemthing you like to do. Just submit a patch and it will be added. And of course, in case of any questions the devel list is the right place to do so. Before you might also like to check http://www.geany.org/Support/Hacking
Cheers, Frank