SWT/Devel

This page is intended to document the development of SWT itself. E.g compiling native bindings etc.

SWT Platforms

SWT Development varies a lot depending on which platform you're developing on. Please see the individual sections.

SWT on GTK development

Please see GTK development.

SWT on Win32 development

 ... to be added some day.

SWT on Cocoa development

 ... to be added some day.

Workflow

For workflow suggestions/simplification, please see the SWT workflow page.

Using Gerrit

Gerrit is used to review your patches. For further information, please see gerrit

Backporting Patches

You have several options. 1) On the gerrit review of your patch, click on 'cherry pick' and start typing the name of your branch (e.g R4_5_maintenance) 2) Check out the remote repository locally, manually cherry pick the commit from your git history, then do either one of:

3a) Push directly into branch

If you have committer rights and you would like to push your patch directly into a backport branch, execute from command line as following:

 git push review HEAD:R4_5_maintenance

3b) Create a review for backport

If you would like to submit an extra gerrit review before merging into a backport branch, execute as following:

 git push review HEAD:ref/for/R4_5_maintenance

(Note, the 'ref/for/' is a branch that gerrit monitors to create new patch reviews.)

Mylyn

Nice Video tutorials:

• Mylyn overview: Youtube : Mylyn Overview
• Mylyn, doing code reviews on gerrit Youtube : Code review inside Eclipse with gerrit

 Note, you need to install the 'Gerrit' connector inside mylyn.

General Advice

Read Function Documentation

Always read documentation of every function that you are adding to the code base (esp. Gtk functions).

This includes the situation where you copy & paste code because sometimes methods get deprecated and you end up copy & pasting deprecated methods. Copy & pasting code without knowing what it does exactly is dangerous.