Code Cleanup

From BRL-CAD
Revision as of 12:55, 11 April 2011 by Sean (talk | contribs) (stub in initial page, link to HACKING)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

The BRL-CAD source code is large with a lot of history. In order to survive decades of development, considerable time and attention is put forth towards improving code maintainability and code quality. One of the best ways to get involved in BRL-CAD open source development is to help clean up source code.

Cleaning up the source code helps you become familiarized with BRL-CAD and improves maintainability. There are a variety of ways you can clean up source code, but some of our specific efforts in place to help refactor BRL-CAD are:


HACKING

Our tried and true developer guidelines HACKING file identifies numerous stylistic concerns and source code conventions that the entire BRL-CAD source code should conform to. When in doubt, consult the dev guidelines.