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Help with Coding

If you're a software developer and would like to contribute to the project, please get involved.

DPD Project Management

Here's the DPD Codebase Project Management on GitHub with all the open and in-progress issues. Just comment on any issue to find out more, or please get in touch by email.

DPD Project repo

Here's the dpd-db GitHub repo, which contains the code for all aspects of the project.

Technical Docs

Here are the technical docs, for building the database, or just working with the pre-built database

GitHub Releases

You can find the latest releases here on GitHub, which includes the latest version of the database.

Languages

DPD uses a few languages.

  • Python: Most of the project backend is written in Python.

  • HTML CSS JS: Most of the frontend is written in HTML, CSS and vanilla JavaScript.

  • Go: A few of the more time-consuming operations, like the Deconstructor and generating Frequency tables, are written in Go to take advantage of its speed and concurrency.

  • Markdown: This website and all the project docs are written in Markdown.

App Development

A long-term goal is to create a custom app for DPD and other Pāḷi Dictionaries. This would replicate the current lookup functionality of GoldenDict and further allow the integration of many requested features, which are not possible within the GoldenDict framework.