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@@ -1,44 +1,23 @@ -==================== -0: Table of contents -==================== +Hacking on Nautilus +------------------- -0: Table of contents -1: Intro -2: Using the leak checker - -======== -1: Intro -======== - -Nautilus source tree is available from CVS (the latest-cutting edge -version) and in releases (tarballs). +The Nautilus source tree is available from GNOME cvs (cvs.gnome.org) and +in releases on the GNOME FTP site +(http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/nautilus/). If you plan to hack on Nautilus, please make sure you work from the -CVS version. The CVS version is available on GNOME CVS. The page -http://developer.gnome.org/tools/cvs.html details how to get started -with GNOME CVS. +CVS version. The CVS version can be checked from the GNOME cvs server. +See http://developer.gnome.org/tools/cvs.html for details on how to get +started with GNOME CVS. -If you want to contribute patches, please send mail to one of the nautilus -maintainers (listed in MAINTAINERS) and/or the nautilus mailing -list: <nautilus-list@lists.eazel.com> (subscriptions should be made to -<nautilus-list-request@lists.eazel.com> with "subscribe" as a -subject). +If you want to contribute patches, please send mail to the nautilus +mailing list: <nautilus-list@gnome.org>. Archives and subscription +information are available at +http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list + +You can also attach patches to individual bugs in bugzilla +(http://bugzilla.gnome.org, product 'nautilus'). Patches should be made with 'cvs diff -pu >patch' and should conform to Nautilus coding style as described in docs/style-guide.html Please read other relevant documents in the docs directory too. - -========================= -2: Using the leak checker -========================= - -The leak checker is built as part of the eazel-tools gnome module. -Build that first before you continue. - -Nautilus is set up to use the libleakcheck.so leak checking -library. To use it, run Nautilus with LD_PRELOAD set to the path to -the installed libleakcheck.so library. For example, if you are using a -Bourne-compatible shell, like bash, you can run Nautilus this way to -run with leak checking: - -LD_PRELOAD=/gnome/lib/libleakcheck.so /gnome/bin/nautilus |