Am 14.09.2016 um 01:54 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: > On 9/13/2016 12:01 PM, Jonathan Kühn wrote: > ... >> You use subversion. As I am not (yet) allowed to submit changes myself, >> do I need to install it? > > You will need a subversion client to do useful coding. Even though you > can't directly make changes, you can construct a "patch", the > difference between your working version and a checked-in version. You > can attach a patch to a BugZilla report. A committer can then pick it > up and apply it for you. Ok, I installed svn. > >> Where can I find the source code/documentation/tests or whatever I shall >> work with, and how should I know which part is important for me at the >> moment? > > Information about that is in the guides on how to build AOO. What > platform(s) will be you be using? Found them, thanks. I'm not sure what exactly is meant by platforms, so... I did use a simple text editor for C, but I think I will change to Eclipse. My operation system is Linux Debian. I hope one of these two is the one you asked for. > >> I didn't learn C++ yet, but I think I have to learn it this semester, >> but I got basics in C. Should I wait, until I got basics in C++ before >> doing anything with your code, or is knowing C and Java as >> object-oriented language enough to understand your (C++)-code and write >> some myself? >> Wait, thats sounds a bit like I think that C++ don't need to be learned >> if you did learn C. But I think I heard somewhere, that C-code is C++ >> compatible, is this true? >> I won't ask any more C <-> C++ questions here, I don't think this is the >> right forum for this... > > This is the right forum for anything a new volunteer needs to ask to > get started. It exists to help with those questions without the wide > distribution and noise level of dev@ > > I don't recommend writing C++ without having actually studied it. You > may be able to analyze a bug report and track down the problem using > C, Java, and some guesswork. That would itself be useful. > ... So I'm gonna start with this. But I think I will need C++ in the next semester, so I'm going to learn this, too.
Thank you for your answers. I didn't have time to get familiar with svn, and create a bugzilla acc. We have a limit on how much traffic we produce from our provider, so I am not able to download the source code all at one time at the moment. So there will be more question at a later point in time.
