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Re: Help on starting exploring Octave Source Code!
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Mike Miller |
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Re: Help on starting exploring Octave Source Code! |
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Thu, 23 Apr 2015 00:16:14 -0400 |
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 00:43:02 +0530, Nikhil Sambhus wrote:
> I am interested in learning the source code of GNU Octave. In future I
> would also like to contribute in its development!
Welcome!
> As its a huge code base, could anyone please guide me about how I can
> understand, explore and start playing around with it?
> Are there any documents/blogs etc which could help me with respect to this
> regard?
You could start with the etc/HACKING file [1] in the Octave source tree.
The intent is to be a a brief introduction to the code tree and how to
build it.
There are a lot of ways to get involved with Octave, maybe pick a
specific area that interests you, explore, and ask questions.
[1] http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/raw-file/@/etc/HACKING
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mike