LSST DM Developer Guide

Introduction

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 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 mailing list subscription and management

For development or testing activity on NCSA machines, see:

• establishing Public/Private Keys for ssh access to NCSA development machines
• the list of available development servers and their intended use
• system announcements of the status and planned down-time
• Real-time system status (requires login)
• Report system issues to lsst-admin@ncsa.uiuc.edu

• Do the following to initialize for development on the LSST cluster (lsst-dev, etc.), or include the following in the shell .rc file:

> source ~lsstsw/eups/bin/setups.sh   # bash users
> setup anaconda
> setup git
> setup lsst

• SDSS DR7 data for Stripe 82 is located at: /lsst7/stripe82/dr7/runs. 

DM Reviews

Various kinds of review of the DM software are conducted during development.