Developing For MediaPortal 1
Contents
General
Introduction
The purpose of this section is to make information available for developers of the MediaPortal project and MediaPortal plugins. If you want to contribute code patches, see this page: Submit Patches
Coding Guides
Coding Standards - Guidelines on the development process, and code layout.
Testing Standards - Guidelines for testing and examples.
Patch Policy - How patches should look and be submitted.
Roadmaps and Development Progress
Subversion (SVN)
- Subversion (SVN) is a tool which allows development teams to safely coordinate and track source code changes. It helps large project development by merging code changes from various developers. Without SVN it is easily possible to overwrite other people's changes and one would be unable to restore previous versions of code if necessary.
Mailing Lists
SVN Update mailing list - Sends out email on every SVN update.
MediaPortal
Architecture
If you would like to learn more about how MediaPortal see the following:
Compiling and Debugging
Compiling MediaPortal - Instructions on how to compile the MediaPortal source code.
Debugging MediaPortal - Instructions on how to run a debug build of MediaPortal.
Plugin Developer and Skin Designer Guides (How To)
- Please ensure you fully understand the abovementioned topics before developing your own Plugin/Skin. Following the above Standards will make it easier for others to understand what you are trying to do within your code if support is required.
TV-Server
Documentation
Examples
Debugging
DeployTool and NSIS
MediaPortal Wiki 