CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing

I welcome your pull requests. However, I'm a stickler for detail.

1. Never use a compiler-specific feature when the C++ Standard Library can do the job.
2. Use Boost and the Standard Library rather than rolling your own solutions.
3. Run your code through clang-format. (See src/format.sh for how.)
4. Minimize OS-specific code.
5. Simplify, simplify, simplify!
6. On Windows, ensure everything can be statically linked.
7. If it doesn't compile cleanly on GCC, Clang++, and MSVC++, it won't be accepted.
8. Thou shalt not use naked pointers or unchecked buffer access.
9. Thou shalt not manage thine own memory.