[Scilab-Dev] Beginner in Scilab

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Hello Guilherme,

Le vendredi 10 avril 2009 à 11:44 -0300, Guilherme Kunigami a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to start developing something for Scilab, but I'm not quite
> sure from where to start.
Cool!

> I've downloaded the source code (I think this is not the latest
> version though) and took a look at some source code from modules (e.g.
> gui module). But I still don't know much about the architecture of
> Scilab or how it works.
We are using git to manage the source. If you clone the current git, you
will get the future version 5.2 of Scilab. You can also checkout the
branch 5.1 to get the future version 5.1.1.

> Documents I've tried to read:
> 
> http://www.scilab.org/developers/doxygen_scilab/index.html
Well, don't start with that. It is hard to start understanding a
software with the whole documentation.

> http://wiki.scilab.org/Developers
> 
> I also tried to look for some bugs. This one seems quite simple to
> fix:
> 
> http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3264
> 
> but I'm not sure on how to proceed.
Indeed, this one is easy.
You just have to find out where these strings are in the code (grep is
your friend) and to remplace them by better.

After that, if you want to get familiar with Scilab, you need to have an
objective in Scilab. It is a huge software with many different
aspects... Just focus on some parts.

Don't hesitate if you have any other questions/remarks...

Sylvestre