README.hacking

README.hacking -- notes for contributors
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CODING STYLE

Not all old code has been cleaned up, but going forward, please follow these
conventions:

* 2-space indentation with spaces, not tabs

DEPENDENCIES DURING DEVELOPMENT (AKA USING MYLIB)

It can be annoying to manage dependencies during development when testing
metabase distributions as they often depend on other metabase distributions
also under development.  

There are a few options
(1) set PERL5LIB to include all metabase project files
(2) continually install all metabase project files while developing
(3) use "-Mylib" and the .mylib file

For (3), install the "ylib" module from CPAN.  Then, when you invoke "perl
-Mylib", all directories listed in the .mylib file will be added to @INC.  For
Makefile.PL, you'll need to make sure that -Mylib is used by perl as invoked
in the Makefile:

  $ perl -Mylib Makefile.PL PERL="`which perl` -Mylib"