[dev] new application development HowTo

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting freaked at gmx.at:

> I plan to develope a application for horde. It will be a Document
> Management tool.

Have you looked at Gollem? It's more of a file manager than a document manager
at this point, but a lot of changes have been made to it with document
management in mind, and that's still on the desired roadmap for it. It'd be
great to have you doing work adding to an existing app, instead of starting
something completely new and a bit duplicative.

> *) What development tools to you use !? Just editor, or something like
> Eclipse ( www.eclipse.org )

I just use emacs. Use whatever you're comfortable with.

> *) How is the best way to start off with an Module ? With the skeleton
> or with an existing application.

It entirely depends on your project. I'd like to hear more about the
requirements you have for your document manager, and that'll help us to answer
this.

> *) any more suggestion out of your experience !?

http://horde.org/papers/ and http://dev.horde.org/, if you haven't seen them
already.

-chuck

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