You fancy getting stuck in to Gnerudite? Excellent, everyone is welcome to get involved. Please read the generic Gnome stuff below... To submit a patch, email it to me My preffered patch format is the output of: diff -u oldfile newfile My preferred indenting style is the Gnu style. This is the default output of GNU indent 2.1.1, but for earlier versions, you will need to provide the --gnu parameter (I think). If you send a couple of nice patches, you'll be welcome to get stuck into CVS directly. Hack on anything you like, have a read through the source, find one of the many /* TODO */ labels, and get stuck in. Fix any glaring errors you find, I don't pretend to be good at this! Thanks for reading! Happing Gnoming... Tom Gilbert. ------------------------ GENERIC GNOME HACKING ------------------------ If you want to hack on the GNOME project, it will make your life easier to have the following packages installed: - GNU m4 1.4 - GNU texinfo 3.12 (for makeinfo 1.68) - GNU autoconf 2.13 - GNU libtool 1.2d - GNU gettext 0.10.35 - GNU automake 1.4 - GNU guile 1.3a - GNU indent 1.91 (ORBit wants it) These should be available by ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu or any of the fine GNU mirrors. Prerelease software can be found at alpha.gnu.org. If you are accessing gnome via CVS, then you will have to run the autogen.sh script with any possible arguments that you might want to pass to configure. cvsroot/gnome# ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gnome If you like to build in a directory different from the source, you can run `/autogen.sh' in the build directory. Please submit patches to the gnome-list@gnome.org mailing list. All kinds of contributions are accepted. If at all possible, please use CVS to get the latest development version of gnome; the README file has the CVSROOT information.