Developer notes

Notes for developers working on the Tahiti source code: how to build the application, the coding conventions and the handling of strings and secrets. The canonical source repository is git@gitlab.lightcomp.cz:tahiti/tahiti.git (branch master); the legacy SVN repository is frozen at r3047 (7.6.0.976).

• How to build Tahiti
  • Prerequisites
  • Build steps
  • Building NSPR + NSS
  • Building BCGControlBar Professional
  • Building CrashReporter
• Coding conventions
  • Layout of the source tree
  • Errors, logging, ownership
  • Architecture
  • Recipe: adding a UI command
  • Localization
  • Style
• Strings in Tahiti
  • TahitiBase string types
  • Conversions
  • User interface
  • FAQ
• Handling of secrets in memory
  • lcbase::Secret
  • Where the password is stored
  • Rules