How do you configure an environment for an open source project from sourceforge

After some forum conversations I'd like to try correcting some open source code on a project (DataNucleus) based in SourceForge.

Everything is configured like most other open source projects there as far as it appears to me.

My goal is to configure the environment so I can run the test cases they have created for the project.

I've never tried to configure an environment from one of these sources and don't know where to start really. I have a command line SVN client (but no honest experience with SVN either).

I see a lot of projects in there. Test cases appear to be separate projects. It's not clear how dependencies and such work.

I would think that these projects are set up so that creating a local environment of the project is, for the most part, straight forward.

Which lead开发者_开发技巧s me to believe that I just don't know how that's done, properly.

If someone's done this, could you give me a bullet point list of things I need to do to set up a typical environment off of sourceforge?

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A forum post on DataNucleus site answered this, there is complete documentation on setting up a development environment available on their site that I hadn't come across yet:

http://www.datanucleus.org/development/index.html