Re: new ideas for how to contribute to PSPP

[John Darrington]

The answer to the GUI question is Glade http://glade.gnome.org
Also the Gtk+ tutorial at http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk-tutorial/stable/
may be helpful.

Most of PSPP is written in C (not C++) so a working knowledge of the
language is advantageous.

The rest of the things you mentioned are details which I would not worry
about until they become a problem for you.  My general advice to anyone
wanting to get started would be "jump straight in".  Browse the README.Git 
file, and start building.  No doubt you will encounter problems to begin
with - just ask on this list and somebody will put you straight.

J'

On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 06:20:53PM -0400, Charles Stangor wrote:
> As a new user of PSPP I was interested in contributing.  I have a lot of  
> experience in vb.net, but none in C++ or in the kind of joint project 
> that PSPP involves.  I couldn't really figure out how the code all fit 
> together. For instance, if I wanted to write some GUI where would I 
> begin?  How exactly are the .q files turned into the .c files and then 
> compiled on the fly? What is a .texi file? What is a .mk file? etc. etc.  
> Probably a half hour on the phone with a developer would get me to where 
> I need to be, but without that or some documentation that I couldn't 
> find, I couldn't really make any progress -- well probably I could, but 
> the time involved getting started seemed enormous.

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