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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 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.

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.