Re: new ideas for how to contribute to PSPP

[Charles Stangor]

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.

Thanks


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From: "Ben Pfaff" <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 2:39 PM
To: "John Darrington" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: new ideas for how to contribute to PSPP

> Good idea.  Added.
>
> John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > l10n would be worth mentioning here too.
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 11:07:56AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >      Harry Thijssen has written up some new ideas on different ways
> >      that people could help out with PSPP development.  I've added
> >      these at the top of the existing "Contribute" page on the PSPP
> >      webpage:
> >              http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/contribute.html
>
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