[FR-devel] FR development environment HOWTO

[Laurent Julliard]

Curt Hibbs where he announced that the next version of FreeRIDE is about 
to be released (Thanks Curt!!). I guess this is going to be a new start 
for many of the developers who subscribed to this mailing list over the 
past 3 months and I thought they may find it usefull to have a recap on 
our development environment

Where
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The FR project is hosted on the Savannah Web site at:

http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freeride

If you want to participate to the FR development effort you must first 
create your own account on Savannah and then send me an email with your 
login name so that I can add you to the project member list.

The CVS repository for FR is also on Savannah. To access the CVS repo 
look at the instructions on the following page:

https://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group_id=880

Again if you want to commit any changes to the CVS repo you must first 
become a member of the Savannah project.

For thos eof you working on Windows you must also install SSH on your 
machine to gain write access to the CVS repo (Developer access). The 
SourceForge guys have a number of good documents on how to set up SSH on 
a Windows box. Look at section #6 on the following page:

http://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=1



Who
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The project admininstrator for FR are currently Curt Hibbs, Rich Kilmer 
and myself. If you have any question on the FR development environment 
then ask us or preferably post your message on the fr-devel mailing list.


How
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There is no real coding guidelines in place for the moment. This may 
come later on.

However we would like to draw your attention on the fact that FR-devel 
aims at becoming THE cross-platform IDE of choice for the Ruby 
community. This implies that the code must work on all platforms out of 
the box or at least on Windows and Linux to start with. So try and make 
sure you do not introduce Windows or Linux specific jargon in your code.

I think that's it for the moment. Feel free to ask any question you may 
have before the real work starts.

Hope this helps

Laurent
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