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Development

Setting up for development

This software is set up to be developed using Windows. In order to get your Windows environment set up for development, a few things need to be done:

  1. Ensure Git is installed
  2. Clone the repository

Preparing a new distributable package

When a new release is ready for deployment, there are a few tasks that need to be done.

  1. Increment the version number and change the date in idlpackage.json, aurorax_version.pro, and README.md.

  2. Generate a new distributable Zip file (more info)

    IDL> ipm,/create,'path_to_code',name='idl-aurorax'

  3. Upload the generated Zip file to https://data.aurorax.space, and update the symlink for latest.zip

  4. Create a new release in Github repository