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DEVELOPMENT NOTES
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:Last update:   $Date: 2007-12-18 14:32:42 +0100 (Di, 18 Dez 2007) $
:Revision:      $Revision: 8 $
:Contact:       p@rdus.de

Changes
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 1) Any change should get a short ChangeLog entry.  

 2) Bigger changes, feature enhancements and closed bugs go into
    CHANGES

 3) The RELEASE_NOTES should contain a summary for the current release
    as well as a list of enhancements and closed bugs.


Versions
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 The version number is being recorded in layman/version.py.

 The version number for release packages has three numbers.

 SVN versions should have the date of the last commit appended.


Authors
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 Please do not forget to add new authors or contributors within
 AUTHORS.


Release management
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 No instructions yet.


Branches
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 No branches yet.


Documentation
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 The documentation can be found as man page in layman/doc. The source
 file layman/doc/layman.8.xml is in DocBook format.


Testing
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The central testing script is llayman/tests/dtest.py

To run the tests, move into the layman root directory and run

 PYTHONPATH="." python layman/tests/dtest.py

The tests should not fail.