Re: [eigen] Developer Contribution Style and Technique

[Christoph Hertzberg <chtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19.09.2012 21:21, Cowing-Zitron, Christopher wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Chris Cowing-Zitron. I work in bioninformatics at the
> University of California, San Diego. I'd like to contribute to the
> development of Eigen; a few of my ideas are adding openmp support for
> sparse products, adding a broader range of interfaces to external
> linear solver packages, and possibly adding basic data transfer
> support from Fortran via the map class. I do have two concerns
> though: Eigen uses such powerful C++ metaprogramming methods that I'm
> worried I might inadvertently mess something up (though of course I
> wouldn't submit any code until I was sure it compiled correctly), and
> also I don't want anyone to have to clean up my code to fit Eigen
> design and style standards. Is there any resource that I've missed
> that describes the standards for submission to Eigen? Or perhaps an
> archived email from the lists that covers this question? Thanks for
> your help, and thanks for Eigen.

Hi and welcome aboard!

There are some rules/suggestions here:
http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Developer%27s_Corner#Eigen_hacking
However, that's partially outdated, e.g., internal methods are in the 
Eigen::internal namespace now.

For sending patches, best read this page:
http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Mercurial

And for development in general there is a category in the wiki:
http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Category:Developer

And of course, don't hesitate to ask on the list, the forum or on IRC.

W.r.t internal documentation, this has been on the bug-list for some time:
http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=138


Christoph


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