From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Thu Apr 04 2002 - 05:45:26 EST
Abiword is written in C++, but there are many ways to help besides
programming. Answering questions on the user mailing list for example.
A guide to working on Free Software by Havoc Pennington
http://www106.pair.com/rhp/hacking.html
How to become a Hacker by Eric S Raymond (crazy gun nut, but he knows
about software)
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
the core of abiword is not windows specific only a small outer layer
of the Graphical User Interface is windows specific.
there is a limited amount of documentation included with the source code
to get you started. Much of the code has been commented and additional
documentation generated from theses comments
http://abisource.com/doxygen/
If you are looking for something small to start with take a look at
http://bugzilla.abisource.com and choose a bug you think you can fix.
Reading the old editions of Abiword weekly news is probably easier than
reading through the mailinglist archives. It includes a summary of
topics discussed on the developer mailing list.
http://abisource.com/information/news/
Things are a bit quiet this week as the main developers have gone to
Guadec a convention for Gnome Programmers in Seville, but there are
usually people on IRC willing to answer questions (but please do make an
attempt to figure out the answers yourself first). irc.gnome.org #abiword
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, James Jensen wrote:
> Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 17:08:00 -0500
> From: James Jensen <jmjensen000@email.com>
> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Learning to Program
>
> I'm an AbiWord fan who would kinda like to contribute to the project.
> The problem is that I do not have a lot of experience with or
> knowledge of C/C++.
>
> I have read through most (all but two chapters)of "How to Think Like a
> Computer Scientist, Learning With C++", but it did not cover
> window-based applications.
>
> Could anyone point me to any free tutorials on the 'net where I could
> gather the information about MS Windows programming I need to have to
> contribute to AbiWord?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -J. Jensen
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