How To... Start a Project

This document is intended to get you started on your own project using Centipede. It does not attempt to teach you what each component in the Centipede Build System does, rather it is aimed at getting you up and running quickly. When you want to do some clever customisation stuff you will need to delve into the more in depth manuals (see the rest of the docs on this site and "in development" docs on our Wiki) and the mailing lists.

In this tutorial we assume that you have not yet started coding and have no documentation. All you have is an idea of what you want to do.

You should also have downloaded the Centipede package and unpacked it to a convenient directory.

This tutorial is written against Version 1.0b3 of Centipede, later versions may differ. If you find an inconsistency please let us know, or better still go ahead and improve on this document, send any changes to us via the patch management system and we will include them in the next version.