Software tools for Developers

Open Source Tools we are using within openPETRA

IDE (Integrated Development Environment)	SharpDevelop (other IDE's supported)
File Comparison, File Merge	WinMerge KDiff3
Unit Testing	NUnit NUnitForms
Version Control	Bazaar PuTTY / Plink (facilitates the secure connection to our version control server)
Build System	NAnt
Continuous Integration Server	Jenkins
Translations	Launchpad (website) Poedit
Relational Database Systems	PostgreSQL MySQL SQLite
Execution of .NET Assemblies on Non-Windows Operating Systems	mono project
WinForms Grid Control	DevAge SourceGrid
Editor (esp. for Text, XML, YAML Files)	Notepad++
Installer Creation	InnoSetup, NSIS
Diagrams	dia
Database Diagram Creation	sql2diagram, SchemaSpy
Bug Tracking	Mantis (at SourceForge)
Forums	phpBB (at SourceForge)
Wiki	MediaWiki (at SourceForge)
Website CMS	WordPress (on our own Server) + custom layout + qtranslate

One thing being worth to look at is the openSUSE-build-service for linux-builds. Please find more information on openSUSE-build-service

Other Supported IDE's (Integrated Development Environments)

The Project and Solution files for OpenPetra are not created by hand - we use a Project and Solution generator tool for that task. One of the advantages of using this is that it can create Project and Solution files for various IDE's.

This gives the developer a choice between the following IDE's for developing OpenPetra:

• SharpDevelop (open source, versions 3 and 4)
• MonoDevelop (open source, experimental at this stage)
• Visual Studio (Express [=free] and full [=commercial] editions)

Notes

• Notes about Bazaar
• Notes about MySQL
• Notes about PostgreSQL
• Notes about SQLite
• Notes about NAnt
• Notes about I18N (gettext)
• Uncrustify Code Beautifier (currently using 0.53) and UniversalIndentGUI

Tools for Generating Documentation

• using Doxygen for code documentation (API documentation)
• TODO: dbdoc