I have some general questions to ask about the source code to boinc. I am registered and receive email from boinc.dev and boinc.alpha but neither of those feeds seem appropriate for a newbie.

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Why is the difference between the "trunk" that I downloaded recently, and the latest tag "6.10.43" so great? The piece of code I am analyzing, CViewProjects::OnProjectWebsiteClicked, was patched in 6.2.12 or earlier, but the trunk does not show it.

Since I just want to debug a problem or two and submit a bug report, perhaps I should be working with the tag?

I have read thru this to get up to speed on SVN. I usually work with source safe, an M$ product.

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apt-get source boinc returns 6.2.12 under Dotch_UX which is 8.1 ubuntu. OK, I read here that wxLaunchDefaultBrowser was replaced with a debian patch that seems to have caused problems with the CViewProjects::OnProjectWebsiteClicked code. That patch is not in the trunk but it is in 6.2.12 and 6.10.43. However, according to the above launchpad bug, ExecuteLink has ALSO been patched. I assume that patch in in debian code, not boinc. So if I grab the latest 6.10.43 from boinc downloads and replaced boinc and boinmgr (in 8.1) could that cause the problem I am seeing where I cannot launch the project url from boincmgr? This problem was also observed by the Dotch_UX developer. Note that ubuntu is not exactly the same as debian and the sensible-browser is in debian utils whereas ubuntu seems to use environment variables such as $BROWSER. IANE on linux.

Those mailing lists are good for keeping up on what is happening with development. It will take time for some of it to make sense.

Info on the development side can be found in the Trac wiki: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki

Bugs also get reported via Trac. To prevent spam you have to have an account, but you can get one just by asking.

You can post questions in these forums, in the lower section on Software Development and Testing. Not many developers read them, and those folks who do read them don't always respond right away. But you still may get an answer, and you might also learn something from reading the old posts. If your question is really compelling then someone who reads more regularly might alert the right person about the question. Or not, but maybe.

It may take a while to get up to speed, but these are some of the resources that can get you started.

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