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We should add a new developer tutorial/quickstart guide #20211

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JustinPrivitera opened this issue Jan 31, 2025 · 0 comments

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JustinPrivitera commented Jan 31, 2025 •

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I can't find something like this if we already have it.

We should add a quickstart guide for new developers who want to work on VisIt. We should include information like this:

If you want to work on developing VisIt, a good place to start would be getting the project built.

I'd start with something like this on a linux system:

git clone --recursive [email protected]:visit-dav/visit.git
./visit/src/tools/dev/scripts/build_visit --write-unified-file build_visit
./build_visit --makeflags -j24 --mesagl --required

But have instructions for windows and mac as well. Quick information about contributing should be available as well.

Mainly, I think we need a resource that can quickly get new developers bootstrapped, whether they are new to the team or are external collaborators.

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