On Friday 16 February 2001 01:49 pm, Robin Rowe wrote:
> Hi. Is there a developer howto for those who want to make modifications to
> blackbox and offer patches?
>
> I have downloaded blackbox-0.61.1.tar.gz. Is this the right file to work
> against? Is there CVS or are patches the preferred approach? Is there a
> list somewhere of what's already done/doing so I won't reinvent the wheel?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robin
The version you mention is a good place to code against. It's solid and most
people have it and can apply patches to it. Patches are good because people
can apply the ones they want for the desired features without bloating the
main blackbox tarball.
For better or worse (depending on your view) the only HOWTO is the source...
When the current version was in development, Jeff Raven would make snapshots
available periodically on his website (
http://www.math.psu.edu/raven/blackbox.html ). If development starts to pick
up I would hope he will do the same (or whoever might do it).
Dan
