mandiant / mandiant/STrace

Create VS Template for Plugins

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Dominant language
C++
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Forks
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Description

If anyone wants to create a plugin there are a lot of little settings in the project that would lend better to a template. Also a lot of skeleton code. Instead of asking people to copy another plugin and make it work we can have a nice template for a new plugin.

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by examining an existing plugin project and identifying the project settings and skeleton code that contributors currently copy. Define a Visual Studio template that includes those pieces, then verify that a new plugin can be created from it without manually reproducing the setup.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
build-system, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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