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This pages serves as a collecting point for all issues related to the development of Octave.
:''This page contains links to pages of interest to Octave developers.''


The future development of Octave is planned on the [[Roadmap]] page.
== Getting started ==
* [[Developer FAQ]] -- Start here.
* [[Contribution guidelines]] for Octave
** [[C++ style guide]]
** [[Octave style guide]]
** [[Help text style guide]]


On the page [[Projects]] possible tasks are listed for future Octave developers.  
== Octave development ==
 
=== [[:Category:Building|Building]] ===
 
* [[Building]] -- General information how to build Octave from source.
** [[Building on Microsoft Windows]]
** [[Building on Ubuntu Virtual Machine]]
* [[Continuous Build]] -- Check changes with [https://buildbot.net/ Buildbot].
* [[MXE]] -- Cross-compiling to MS Windows.
* [[Enable large arrays: Build octave such that it can use arrays larger than 2Gb.|Large array support]] --
 
==== Tools ====
 
* [[Mercurial]] -- How to use Octave's version control scheme, creating patches (changesets).
* [[Doxygen]] -- Documentation for C++ files
* [https://ccache.samba.org/ ccache] -- How to faster compile Octave.
* [[:Category:Editors|Editors]] -- A list of editors supporting Octave syntax highlighting.
 
=== [[:Category:Testing|Testing]] ===
 
* [[Tests]]
* [[BIST for m-files]]
* [[Add BIST tests for octave functions written in C++|BIST for C++ files]]
 
=== Debugging ===
 
* [[Debugging Octave]] -- How to use [https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/ gdb] to obtain stack traces.
* [[Finding Memory Leaks]] -- How to use [https://www.valgrind.org/ valgrind].
 
=== [[:Category:Releases|Releasing]] ===
 
* The next release will be '''GNU Octave 6.1'''. See the '''[[6.1 Release Checklist]]''' for more information.
* [[:Category:Releases|Older releases]]
 
== [[:Category:Project_Ideas|Project ideas]] and work in progess ==
* [[Short projects]] -- Good starting point to get into the Octave development.
* [[Summer of Code Project Ideas]] -- Ideas page for GSoC, SOCIS, ... projects.
* [[Projects]] -- Many things that would be nice to have done.
** [[Classdef]] -- Define own data types using <code>classdef</code>.
** [[JIT]] -- Just in time compiler for Octave.
** [[GUI terminal widget]] -- Ideas about a new improved terminal widget.
** [[International Characters Support]] -- Using Octave in your own language.
** [[Pythonic]] -- Calling Python functions directly from Octave.
 
== Meetings ==
 
* Read about past [[:Category:Meetings | developer meetings]].
 
== Other ==
* [[Project Infrastructure]]


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Revision as of 20:02, 29 August 2020

This page contains links to pages of interest to Octave developers.

Getting started

Octave development

Building

Tools

  • Mercurial -- How to use Octave's version control scheme, creating patches (changesets).
  • Doxygen -- Documentation for C++ files
  • ccache -- How to faster compile Octave.
  • Editors -- A list of editors supporting Octave syntax highlighting.

Testing

Debugging

Releasing

Project ideas and work in progess

Meetings

Other