.. _core_developer_guide:

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Guide for IPython core Developers
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This guide documents the development of IPython itself.  Alternatively,
developers of third party tools and libraries that use IPython should see the
:doc:`../development/index`.


For instruction on how to make a developer install see :ref:`devinstall`.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   release_process


Old Documentation
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Out of date documentation is still available and have been kept for archival purposes.

.. note::

  Developers documentation used to be on the IPython wiki, but are now out of
  date. The wiki is though still available for historical reasons: `Old IPython
  GitHub Wiki.  <https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/Dev:-Index>`_