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| author |  Jayant Kolhe <jkolhe@google.com> | 2015-02-25 11:27:57 -0800 |
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| committer | Jayant Kolhe <jkolhe@google.com> | 2015-02-25 11:27:57 -0800 |
| commit | 8542900a2ed7df7e0b4848f7b1d03ba6a5e34cb6 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b7a37b94f052c8c58d22ebe3eb3c081de21c48e | |
| parent | 7ff92c84efdb6233f0af4cd501b3b09142ce33ae (diff) | |
| parent | 9e81817ee587478035536634c95d011372397d6f (diff) | |
Merge pull request #799 from a11r/a11r-patch-1
Update CONTRIBUTING.md
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 57d176f663..b58c3568fc 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -24,27 +24,27 @@ properly run all the tests. If you are planning to work on any of the languages other than C and C++, you will also need their appropriate development environments. -If you want to work under Windows, we recommend you to use Visual Studio 2013. +If you want to work under Windows, we recommend the use of Visual Studio 2013. The [Community or Express editions](http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs.aspx) are free and suitable for developing with grpc. Note however that our test environment and tools are available for Unix environments only at the moment. ## Testing your changes -We provide a tool to help you run our suite of tests in various environments. +We provide a tool to help run the suite of tests in various environments. In order to run most of the available tests, one would need to run: `./tools/run_tests/run_tests.py` -If you want to run all the possible tests for all possible languages, do this: +If you want to run all the possible tests for any of the languages {c, c++, node, php, python}, do this: -`./tools/run_tests/run_tests.py -lall -call` +`./tools/run_tests/run_tests.py -l <lang> -c all` ## Adding or removing source code Each language uses its own build system to work. Currently, the root's Makefile -and the Visual Studio project files are building the C and C++ source code only -at the moment. In order to ease the maintenance of these files, we have a +and the Visual Studio project files are building only the C and C++ source code. +In order to ease the maintenance of these files, we have a template system. Please do not contribute manual changes to any of the generated files. Instead, modify the template files, or the build.json file, and re-generate the project files using the following command: |