.. _development_index:

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Development
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Developer documentation, such as how to update the docs, where the test
frameworks are, who develops the software, and conventions to use when
developing new code can be found in this section.

.. note::

  Users looking for documentation on how to use PDAL's command line applications should look :ref:`here <apps>` and users looking to use the PDAL API in their own applications should look :ref:`here <api>`.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   overview
   compilation/index
   errorhandling
   metadata
   writing
   plugins
   writing-filter
   writing-kernel
   writing-reader
   writing-writer
   cmake
