Re: I would like to collaborate

[Alfredo Esteban]

2009/2/21 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>:
> 2009/2/20 Alfredo Esteban <address@hidden>:
>> In short, I only need some guide lines to start to collaborate.
>
> I can't help you much with particulars, since that would be kind of
> like the blind leading the blind. ;-) Hopefully someone else can you
> give you more specific details.
>
> I think I can give you a few ideas on how to get started, though. You
> should probably first read a little about mercurial so you can work
> with the development sources. You might want to learn a bit about the
> GNU build system to know how to get Octave compiled. I personally find
> the Octave sources a little confusing, but they do follow the GNU
> coding standards closely, so you might want to familiarise yourself
> with those too.
>
> I also found the following document helpful for finding my way around
> the sources:
>
>     http://www.stud.tu-ilmenau.de/~rueckn/Oct_Interpreter_Compiler.pdf
>
> I further recommend to run Doxygen on the sources so that you can get
> a better picture of what functions are available, what the class
> hierarchy is, and so forth. There isn't much documentation for the
> sources, but it seems the developers aren't too troubled by this.
>
> HTH,
> - Jordi G. H.
>

Thank you very much for you help, Jordi. I'm following the steps you
describe. I already knew "GNU build system" and I had worked with
others distributed revision control tools, but not mercurial.

Alfredo