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2 'gschem and Friends' Electronic Design Suite
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5 Copyright (C) 1998-2011 gEDA Developers
7 This file contains information which you may find useful if you wish
13 Please submit patches to the bug tracker on Launchpad:
15 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/geda>
17 Once you've submitted your patches, you may wish to also e-mail the
18 `gEDA-user' mailing list [1] to announce that you've done so and to ask
21 To make it easier for developers to promptly verify your patches and
22 integrate them, please try to follow the following guidelines:
24 - If your patch is big, try to split it up into a series of small,
25 logical steps, and use a separate patch for each.
27 - Avoid unnecessary whitespace changes. Please do not add trailing
28 whitespace. If you must make bulk whitespace changes
29 (e.g. because a file or function is formatted in a way that is
30 *offensively ugly*) then please do so as a separate patch.
32 - Ensure that each of your patches applies cleanly against the
33 `master' branch of the gaf main git repository.
35 - Please format your patches with `git format-patch' [2], and ensure
36 that they contain good commit messages. The commit messages
39 * A one-line summary of what the patch changes.
41 * A detailed explanation of what the patch changes, the problem
42 it solves, and why you chose that approach to solving the
43 problem. Sometimes, the change will be very self-explanatory.
44 Sometimes, the commit message will be considerably longer than
47 * If the patch is related to another bug in the Launchpad
48 tracker, include its bug number.
50 * If your patch fixes a regression, and you know which commit
51 introduced the regression, include the broken commit's ID.
53 If you don't use `git format-patch' to create your patch, please
54 include the commands needed to apply it when you submit it.
55 Assume the reader's current working directory is the top level of
56 the gEDA/gaf source tree.
58 - Make sure it's clear whether, and in what ways, you've tested your
61 - If you add functions, or change function definitions, make sure
62 that the doxygen [3] comments are up-to-date.
64 Sometimes, you may submit a patch and not hear anything back for a
65 while. This can be for a number of reasons, and it's only very rarely
66 that there's a great conspiracy of gEDA developers to obstruct your
67 changes from getting included. It might even be that your patch has
68 been committed, but the developer who did so forgot to let you know!
69 If it's been more than a couple of weeks since you submitted a patch,
70 you should e-mail the `gEDA-user' mailing list with a reminder.
72 A final thought: to get your patches included, make it easy to accept
75 [1] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
76 [2] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-format-patch.html
77 [3] http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/
82 gEDA C coding style is fairly flexible. However, there are a few requests.
84 - Indent using spaces only, with an indentation step of two spaces.
86 - Avoid C++ style comments (`//').
88 - `switch' statements should always include a `default' label.
90 - Do not comment out code or omit it using `#if 0', unless
91 absolutely necessary for documentation purposes. If code is not
94 - Wrap code at 80 columns.
96 - Wrap the body of an `if' statement in braces `{}', even if the
97 body only contains one statement.
99 - When checking a pointer for validity, explicitly compare it with
102 if (ptr == NULL) { return; } /* Good */
103 if (!ptr) { return; } /* Bad */
105 Obviously, all these rules are made to be broken, and it'll be obvious
106 when it's appropriate to do so. ;-)
108 Here is a set of options to GNU `indent' which approximates the gEDA
111 -br -blf -bls -cdw -ce -cs -ts2 -sc -nut -bap -pcs -psl -lp l80 -bbo
116 gEDA Scheme coding style is also fairly flexible. Once again, though,
117 there are a few things to bear in mind!
119 - When you need to iterate over a list, it's often better to use
120 `map', `for-each' or SRFI-1 `fold' than to make your function
123 - Predicate functions should have names ending in `?', and
124 destructive functions should have names ending in `!'.
126 - When defining a function, please use the "implicit define" form of
129 (define (<name> <formals>) <body>)
131 - It's often clearer to use `format' to format strings rather than
132 using a combination of `string-append', `display' and `newline'.
133 This function is always available in Guile 1.8.x [4].
135 [1] http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/r5rs-Z-H-9.html#%_idx_558
136 [2] http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/SRFI_002d1-Fold-and-Map.html#index-fold-3609
137 [3] http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/r5rs-Z-H-8.html#%_sec_5.2
138 [4] http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Writing.html#index-simple_002dformat-2052