Developer guide

TeamCOMPAS welcomes the active involvement of colleagues and others interested in the ongoing development and improvement of the COMPAS software. We hope this Developer Guide helps anyone interested in contributing to the COMPAS software. We expect this guide to be a living document and improve along with the improvements made to the software.

This guide covers the C++ COMPAS population synthesis code. Post-processing code (Python scripts) are not (yet) covered by this guide.

• Single star evolution
• Binary star evolution
• Object identifiers
• Services
• Floating-point comparisons
• Constants source file
• Change log
• Programming style
• COMPAS build methods