Setting up a development environment¶

Timeline uses the Mercurial version control system. You can clone the repository with the following command:

hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/thetimelineproj/main

Once you have the repository cloned, you need to install dependencies (see Installing dependencies) and development tools (see the next section).

Then make sure you can run all tests:

python3 tools/execute-specs.py

If that works, you have the basic environment set up.

Installing development tools¶

This section describes how to install developments tools. Some tools are only needed in certain situations.

This is used in some tests.

At the moment, this is included in the Timeline repository and does not have to be installed.

This is used when working with translations. It is also used when running tests.

Windows users: get the zipfiles gettext-tools-0.17.zip and gettext-runtime-0.17-1.zip from here http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/.