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<blockquote data-quote="jsimmons" data-source="post: 420971" data-attributes="member: 85374">Without decent documentation and establishing some standards for submitting code (including naming conventions and the inclusion of reasonably copious comments), we have no hope in hell of &quot;contributing&quot;, and the quality of the code is pointless if it can't be easily maintained.For instance, I'm trying to write a plug-in. The &quot;How To Write A Plug-In&quot; documentation is hopelessly out of date. The directory structure of the source code has evidently changed dramatically since the docs were written, and I'm essentially flying by the seat of my pants trying figure this stuff out.&nbsp; As it is, I've got my plug-in compiled, but where the hell do I put it? The folder specified in the docs does NOT exist, and on top of that, there doesn't seem to be a central binary folder - seriously - compiling the binaries to the source folder?&nbsp; Do they really expect us to manually move files around to get the compiled code to run?Further, I tried to run the Configuration.exe program from it's compiled location, and I got an error saying that my system didn't support some TV thing, and then it crashed on me (I got the latest source code about an hour ago).As long as this code has been around, I seriously expected a smoother experience.&nbsp; At this point, the code in SVN is useless until some guidance is provided.&nbsp; I left a response in the sticky thread about writing a plug-in, but it's been two weeks, and none of the main developers have responded.If I'm completely off base here, I'd be happy to entertain any corrections to my misconceptions of the source and compiling thereof...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jsimmons, post: 420971, member: 85374"] Without decent documentation and establishing some standards for submitting code (including naming conventions and the inclusion of reasonably copious comments), we have no hope in hell of "contributing", and the quality of the code is pointless if it can't be easily maintained. For instance, I'm trying to write a plug-in. The "How To Write A Plug-In" documentation is hopelessly out of date. The directory structure of the source code has evidently changed dramatically since the docs were written, and I'm essentially flying by the seat of my pants trying figure this stuff out. As it is, I've got my plug-in compiled, but where the hell do I put it? The folder specified in the docs does NOT exist, and on top of that, there doesn't seem to be a central binary folder - seriously - compiling the binaries to the source folder? Do they really expect us to manually move files around to get the compiled code to run? Further, I tried to run the Configuration.exe program from it's compiled location, and I got an error saying that my system didn't support some TV thing, and then it crashed on me (I got the latest source code about an hour ago). As long as this code has been around, I seriously expected a smoother experience. At this point, the code in SVN is useless until some guidance is provided. I left a response in the sticky thread about writing a plug-in, but it's been two weeks, and none of the main developers have responded. If I'm completely off base here, I'd be happy to entertain any corrections to my misconceptions of the source and compiling thereof... [/QUOTE]

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