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LSST DM Developer Guide

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Introduction

This guide has yet to be written, although snippets of potentially useful content appear below.

Core Development Resources

The following build resources are essential to LSST software development:

SCons is the build system. See the SCons User Guide to get started.
EUPS is the package management system.
Git is the version control software used for the LSST Stack; the various packages are stored as LSST git repositories.
- See the DM git demo/tutorial on the trac/wiki (warning: some information is stale)
- See the Pro Git book by S. Chacon for a good introduction to git.
Swig is a software development tool that generates interfaces from C or C++ to other languages; for LSST, the target language is python.
lsst-data and lsst-dm-dev mail list subscription and management

See Development on NCSA Machines to set up your environment there.

Standards and Policies

The Standards and Policies provide the framework in which DM software is designed, implemented, tested and documented. These documents have been reviewed and accepted by the DM TCT as developer best practices.