On Friday 16 February 2001 05:13 pm, Dan Williams wrote:
> 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
Ooops...
Should have looked at Jeff's site better...there's CVS info on the right. I
haven't tried it myself.
Dan
