On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 17:29:26 -0400 Matthew Sarett <msar...@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > Specifically, we are hoping to take on Improvement Request #169. We still > have a lot of work to do studying the current codebase, and we are hoping > that we may be able to conclude the project in November by submitting a > patch to this mailing list. Do these sound like reasonable action steps in > planning to contribute to Freecol?
Good plan. My only concern is that #169 may well turn out to be a one line patch. Are you sure that will satisfy your course requirement? > Do you have any recommendations > regarding how to get a development environment up and running? I use emacs, so I can not help here. That question comes up regularly though, so if you work out something, a quick HOWTO-hack-FreeCol-with-<dev-environment> document would be very useful, in fact probably a more significant contribution than fixing #169! > Thanks for your help! Any recommendations, insights, or protocols that we > should know about would be greatly appreciated. The standard contributor boilerplate points you to http://www.freecol.org/how-to-contribute.html and https://sourceforge.net/projects/freecol/ and of course, to this mailing list which is the right place to sort out anything else. If you are already going through the code you are obviously well on the way. WRT #169 itself, the key place will be one of the panels in .../freecol/client/gui/, possibly InPortPanel IIRC. My guess is that all that is needed is to set the active unit when operating on it. Cheers, Mike Pope
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