[scribus-dev] How to start?

[Hans Schmidt]

Hello Cedric and Jluc,

thanks for your answer!

I am running Windows and Linux (in a VM), but compiling Scribus on
Windows is so difficult so that I will use Linux first. I have some
basic knowledge in C++ (rather more in Python), but I mainly want to use
Scribus to learn. Also I have never participated in such a large project
and the file structur is a little bit overwhelming for me.

Ok, I will participate in IRC and follow the other advice :)

As my ultimate goal I want to help develop CJK (Chinese, Japanese,
Korean) support for Scribus. But I guess this is really hard, so first
I'll try to do some easy stuff.

Thanks!

Am 28.09.2013 19:49, schrieb JLuc:
> Hello Hans,
>
> I'm not developping scribus but i sometime compile it
> and take part to debuging.
>
> Cedrics answer is very valuable.
>
> First thing would be to study the wiki
> http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus
>
> install IRC tool and join on irc.freenode.net server to #scribus channel
> so as to share whatever concern you have
> and sometime get usefull answer (depending on who is connected)
>
> install appropriate svn tool to recover uptodate developpement versions.
> which OS are you working on ?
>
> install all necessary libs and tools to compile the source and run the
> dev versions.
>
> Then you could subscribe to the various rss feeds that will
> keep you informed of the commits
> and study each commit, try to understand each.
> Study the code source itself aswell.
> What is your experience with C++ and QT dev ?
>
> Then you can study bugs on the bug tracker
> http://bugs.scribus.net and try to solve some
> You will learn a lot.
>
> Then you can choose what is your priority in debuging or coding scribus
> and go go go!
>
> JLuc
>
>  to compile Le 27/09/2013 21:34, cedric.gemy at gmail.com a écrit :
>> Hello Hans
>>
>> i'm not a developer and just did actually 2 or 3 patch. I would say we
>> mainly use Qtcreator.
>>
>> I don't know if debugging or small functionnalities interest you, but i
>> guess having a look at the bug tracker might be a good place to begin
>> with.
>>
>> I think the text engine is may be not the easiest, but there are so much
>> thing to do on text that, like you i'd like to know how to work on some
>> part of it, particularly styles/properties as well as export.
>>
>> May be cezaryece who has done so much last month on this could give some
>> clues or you could have a look at his scribus-ece repository and do some
>> diffs to understand how it is done.
>>
>> Are you on IRC sometimes ?
>>
>> Hope it helps
>> pygmee
>>
>>
>> Le 27/09/2013 13:04, Hans Schmidt a écrit :
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I’d like to start with the Scribus source code (mainly for learning,
>>> but
>>> - if possible - also for contributing something small). But to be
>>> honest, I am completely lost how to do this.
>>>
>>> Getting the source code with subversion is no problem (and compiling is
>>> also still relatively straightforward), but how do I actually develop
>>> something? Which IDE should I use? Where is everything in the source
>>> code (I am especially interested in the text engine).
>>>
>>> Would be nice if someone could get me some small hints how to start :)
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
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