What you need to develop on Covide

On this page we give you all the information for setting up a development environment to develop on Covide. Experienced developers will be happy to help you if you are realy motivated.

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The necessary development environment consists of a local working Covide system and a Subversion client.

The first is needed to test your Covide patches yourself and the second is needed to regularly update the source of Covide on you local system and generate patch files. This patch file can be uploaded to the review board of Covide. Obviously you'll need to upload patches only after you have tested them.

How do you get a good Covide operating system and a subversion client?

There are three possibility's

1. Install Covide on a Linux system (a bare Debian system) with the installer. (For convenience, saved as a. Tgz file that you'll need to unpack before you using it.) Subversion is complete available after using this installer, and you'll have the latest development version of Covide.
2. Download a complete VM-ware disk - image with a fully installed Linux system including Covide.
   The Linux system has as 'root' password  'Covide. The Covide - system, two users ( 'administrator' and 'covide') with different rights and both the password 'covide'). The MySQL Root user has no password. Note the use of small and capital letters!
   If your Covide system is running after installing the disk - image, you need to update Covide by using Subversion, wich is allready available after installing the disk - image.
3. Entirely by hand. See the README and INSTALL files in the source code of Covide. This possibility is only for the more experienced Linux user.
   For a Subversion client and all the knowledge you surf to http://subversion.tigris.org
   The client you need to install is placed under "Get Subversion". Windows users are advised to use TortoiseSVN.
   Under 'Help' you can also find the complete online Subversion Handbook and right above that you can also find a link to a Quick Reference Card.