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For developers, interested in customizing Trac (theme, plugins | For developers, interested in customizing Trac (theme, plugins etc), setting up a development environment in one's own space without much fuss and moving parts, is of primary concern. This brings down to two essential components for developing for Trac, | ||
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# [[XAMPP]] (Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl) stack. | # [[XAMPP]] (Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl) stack. | ||
Revision as of 20:08, 2 December 2010
Introduction
Trac is an open source, web-based project management and bug-tracking tool (source:Wikipedia). Trac is built on python and provides a web interface to version control systems such as Subversion, Git, Mercurial etc. With its wiki markup capability, Trac serves as a great annotation tool for a project's source code.
End Users
For end users interested in using Trac as a wiki, ticket/bug reporting tool send an email to...
Coming soon, a self servicing web interface for provisioning a trac instance(TBD, a landing page...)
Developers
For developers, interested in customizing Trac (theme, plugins etc), setting up a development environment in one's own space without much fuss and moving parts, is of primary concern. This brings down to two essential components for developing for Trac,
NOTE: Though there may be any number of ways to set up an AMP stack, recommended here is one easy way which has cross-platform capability ie., XAMPP developed by Apache Friends.