HACKING

CODE STYLE
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Please use the style used by the rest of the code. Among other things,
this means:

    * Tabs, not spaces, for indentation

    * Put spaces:
        * around binary operators
	* between if/while/for/switch and "("
	* between function name and "("
     	* between ")" and "{"
	* after ","

    * if/for/while bodies:

        * Single-line bodies should (a) be on their own line, and (b)
          not have braces around them

        * Multi-line bodies should have braces around them, even if
          the body is only a single statement and the braces are not
          syntactically necessary.

	* Eg:

		for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
			if (find (i, something))
				break;
			else {
				function_with_big_name (i, something,
							something_else);
			}
		}

    * C89, not C99. (In particular, don't declare variables in the
      middle of blocks.)

    * Do not use gint, gchar, glong, and gshort. (Other g-types, such
      as gpointer and the unsigned types are fine.)

CORRECTNESS
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    * libsoup builds with lots of -W options by default, and should
      not print any warnings while compiling (unless they're caused by
      #included files from other projects, eg, proxy.h). You can use
      "make > /dev/null" to do a full compile showing only the
      warnings/errors, to make sure your patch does not introduce any
      more.

    * There are a number of regression tests in the tests/ directory.
      Running "make check" will run all of them (or at least, all of
      the ones that it can run based on what software you have
      installed. Eg, some tests require apache to be installed.) You
      should run "make check" before submitting a patch that could
      potentially change libsoup's behavior. ("make check" will warn
      you if it was not able to run all of the tests. If you are
      making extensive changes, or changing very low-level functions,
      you may want to install all of the optional pieces so you can
      run all of the regression tests.)

    * libsoup ought to build correctly from outside its source tree,
      so if you make large changes to the Makefiles, try a "make
      distcheck" to verify that an out-of-source-tree build still
      works.