Category:Development

This page contains links to pages of interest to developers.

Getting started

• Developer FAQ
• Contribution guidelines for Octave
  • C++ style guide
  • Octave style guide

Release process

The GNU Octave 6.1 release process has been started. See the 6.1 Release Checklist for more information.

• Release Checklist template
• Older releases

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 classdef.
  • 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.

Tools & techniques

• Mercurial -- Version control scheme.
• MXE -- Cross-compiling to Windows.
• gdb -- debugger. Useful to obtain stack traces.
  • Debugging Octave -- particularly .oct files using gdb.
• valgrind -- memory leak detector, profiler etc.
  • Finding Memory Leaks
• ccache -- cache compilation across builds.
• Editors -- A list of editors supporting Octave syntax highlighting.

Documentation

• Help text -- Document m-files
• Doxygen -- Document C++ files

Building

• Building -- General information how to build Octave from source.
• Continuous Build
• Large array support

Testing

• Tests
• BIST for m-files
• BIST for C++ files

Packaging -- Building binary distributions

• Create a macOS app using MacPorts
• Create a Windows Installer using MXE

Code sprints

• 2015 Code Sprint
• Code sprint Zurich

Other

• Project Infrastructure