Developer's corner

Branches

We use subversion for our development. Currently, the active branches are:

8.4.1 (svn trunk): The stable version.
8.3.4 (svn branches/GCOMPRIS_8_3): The stable version for Windows. This version exist only because I have not yet updated my build environment on Windows to support the gstreamer audio backend. Until I can build the 8.4 on Windows, I backport the main fixes and features from 8.4 in this branch.
8.5 (svn branches/gcomprixo): This is the current OLPC XO branch. It's a major refactoring to allow us to provide independent activities to the OLPC project, and others.

Technology test:

svn branches/gcomprixogoo, based on gcomprixo branch, port of GCompris to use the goocanvas instead of the gnomecanvas+libart. Read the API here.

To get GCompris trunk from subversion:

svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gcompris/trunk gcompris

To get GCompris development branch from subversion:

svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gcompris/branches/gcomprixogoo

GCompris internals gives an overview of the design of GCompris. It is a good starting point for anybody willing to contribute code.
Adding an activity

These are pages to hold the different discussion for thinks we are working on:

Ideas of activities
Star system review
Requested Features
GCompris work in progress
Todo for 8.3
Todo for 8.4
Todo for 8.5 (Also known as gcomprixo)
Todo for OLPC/sugar future ? Review of sugar/OLPC activities and way to integrate.
Notes on OSX port
Tuxdroid is a little robot from Kysoh that would be fun to integrate with GCompris.
Icons Sugarisation

GCompris is a large software which has numerous dependencies. We ask packagers to be very careful and follow this minimal and manual test process.