On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:12:17PM +0100, Ewan Davies wrote: > Hello to the LyX list,
Hello Ewan. > I've recently needed to produce a fair number of mathematical > documents and found my way to LyX as I had heard LaTeX was good with > maths. I'm very pleased with LyX and would like to contribute to > development. > I haven't got a C++ development environment set up and am not sure > what to go for as LyX seems to be buildable with any system. Have any > of the team used the Qt Creator IDE? Rings a bell somehow. > I reckon it might be a good choice as it is cross platform, and > supports CMake. Any effort put in to get the LyX sources working with > Qt Creator would be reusable on other systems. Qt Creator worked with LyX out-of-the-box last time I looked (checked only on Linux, though). > If Qt Creator is a bad Idea should I go for Windows or Linux as my OS > of choice? Creator works on both, so that should not be the limiting factor. Just choose the OS you are more comfortable with. > I have easy access to both. Autotools or CMake? I there are > so many options that I'm unsure where to start. Autotools is the "official" buildsystem, but does not work (well/at all?) on Windows. With Creator you'll probably end up using cmake anyway, and that's not a real limitation except for a few "fancy" build targets mostly used for packaging. > Pointing out a few 'easy' bugs to investigate might help me too. It's > hard for a newbie to gauge how deep a problem goes! There is a keyword "easyfix" used on http://www.lyx.org/trac. Just search for it using the "Search" box. Andre'
