Developer Central
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The purpose of this page is to give a link to all kinds of resources that contain information valuable to current and future developers of ScummVM.
Writing code
- The first thing you need to be able to do is Compiling ScummVM.
- If you write Code, please absolutely make sure to read about our Code Formatting Conventions. Patches which do not follow them tend to be rejected or at least delayed until they are cleaned up to comply to them.
- If you have write access to our repository, please make sure to read the Commit Guidelines first!
- If you want to provide a new Engine for ScummVM, check out our Engines HOWTO.
- If you want to port ScummVM to a new platform, check out our Backends HOWTO.
- Our release guideline for ScummVM Release HOWTO
- Our release testing status for the latest stable release Release Testing
- Our Doxygen source code documentation may help you to get the big picture about ScummVM.
TODO lists
- To see a generic list of tasks that need to be done, check out the ScummVM TODO file.
- HE_Progress
- Gob_TODO
- Residual_TODO
- SAGA_TODO
- Simon_TODO
Misc
- MIME types, useful for setting the svn:mime-type.
- Documentation on how we performed our CVS to Subversion conversion.
- Discussion about CVS versus SVN
- Discussion about Autodetection of games in ScummVM.
- Discussion about our plans for a New GUI implementation.