Development¶
Getting started¶
cx_Freeze is a volunteer maintained open source project and we welcome contributions of all forms. The sections below will help you get started with development, testing, and documentation. We’re pleased that you are interested in working on cx_Freeze. This document is meant to get you setup to work on cx_Freeze and to act as a guide and reference to the development setup. If you face any issues during this process, please open an issue about it on the issue tracker.
Setup¶
The source code can be found on Github.
You can use git to clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/marcelotduarte/cx_Freeze cd cx_Freeze
Please check the requirements for python and for your system (see Installation).
Building documentation¶
cx_Freeze’s documentation is built using Sphinx. The documentation is written in reStructuredText. To build it locally, run:
make -C doc
The built documentation can be found in the build/doc/html folder and may
be viewed by opening index.html within that folder.
firefox build/doc/html/index.html
Contributing¶
Submitting pull requests¶
Submit pull requests against the main branch, providing a good
description of what you’re doing and why. You must have legal permission to
distribute any code you contribute to cx_Freeze and it must be available under
the PSF License.
Any pull request must consider and work on the supported platforms.
Pull Requests should be small to facilitate review. Keep them self-contained, and limited in scope. Studies have shown that review quality falls off as patch size grows. Sometimes this will result in many small PRs to land a single large feature. In particular, pull requests must not be treated as “feature branches”, with ongoing development work happening within the PR. Instead, the feature should be broken up into smaller, independent parts which can be reviewed and merged individually.
Additionally, avoid including “cosmetic” changes to code that is unrelated to your change, as these make reviewing the PR more difficult. Examples include re-flowing text in comments or documentation, or addition or removal of blank lines or whitespace within lines. Such changes can be made separately, as a “formatting cleanup” PR, if needed.
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