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This page is directed towards new developers that are interested in contributing to Octave. There should be little requirements to follow these steps. | |||
=Contributing to Octave= | =Contributing to Octave= | ||
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If you found something you'd like to fix or improve, check out the [https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=octave bug tracker]. It might have already been fixed in the development or (unreleased) stable version. | If you found something you'd like to fix or improve, check out the [https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=octave bug tracker]. It might have already been fixed in the development or (unreleased) stable version. | ||
Octave is version controlled in a [[Mercurial]] repository | Octave is version controlled in a [[Mercurial]] repository. There are several Mercurial clients for Windows. One that nicely integrates with the Windows Explorer and that offers an easy to learn user interface is [https://tortoisehg.bitbucket.io/download/index.html TortoiseHg]. | ||
There are several Mercurial clients for Windows. One that nicely integrates with the Windows Explorer and that offers an easy to learn user interface is [https://tortoisehg.bitbucket.io/download/index.html TortoiseHg]. | |||
It is also quite easy to create Mercurial patches with that software. Those are the preferred way of contributing to Octave. | It is also quite easy to create Mercurial patches with that software. Those are the preferred way of contributing to Octave. | ||
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If you want to contribute changes to C++ files or are interested in testing the latest development or (unreleased) stable release, you can build Octave from source. | If you want to contribute changes to C++ files or are interested in testing the latest development or (unreleased) stable release, you can build Octave from source. | ||
There is currently no maintained way to build Octave on Windows directly. But it is still possible to build Octave on Windows machines using virtual machines or Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux. | |||
==Virtual Machine== | ==Virtual Machine== | ||
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Because of the basic lack of a graphical user interface (even if somewhat mitigated with the X server), using WSL(2) is not recommended for beginners. | Because of the basic lack of a graphical user interface (even if somewhat mitigated with the X server), using WSL(2) is not recommended for beginners. | ||
=Footnotes= | =Footnotes= |