gtk/CONTRIBUTING.md
Emmanuele Bassi d2af823183 Rename 'HACKING' to 'CONTRIBUTING'
And remove redundant and obsolete information.
2017-08-14 22:23:09 +01:00

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If you want to hack on the GTK+ project, you'll need to have the development
tools appropriate for your operating system, including:
- Python (2.7 or 3.x)
- Meson
- Ninja
- Gettext (19.7 or newer)
- a C99 compatible compiler
Up-to-date instructions about developing GNOME applications and libraries
can be found here:
https://developer.gnome.org
Information about using git with GNOME can be found here:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Git
In order to get Git GTK+ installed on your system, you need to have the
required versions of all the GTK+ dependencies; typically, this means a
recent version of GLib, Cairo, Pango, and ATK.
**Note**: if you plan to push changes to back to the master repository and
have a GNOME account, you want to use the following instead:
```sh
$ git clone ssh://<username>@git.gnome.org/git/gtk+
```
To compile the Git version of GTK+ on your system, you will need to
configure your build using Meson:
```sh
$ meson _builddir .
```
For information about submitting patches and pushing changes to Git, see the
`README.md` and `README.commits` files. In particular, don't, under any
circumstances, push anything to Git before reading and understanding
`README.commmits`.