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+# Suricata Developer Guide
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+This directory contains the Suricata Developer's Guide. It is built as part of the Suricata Userguide.
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+The Sequence Diagrams seen in the Transactions documentation are generated with Mscgen. Mscgen is a small program to parse Message Sequence Charts that can be represented as text and can then converted to image.
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+If you need to update the diagrams, please edit the ``.msc`` files present in the diagrams directory (extending/app-layer/diagrams). Once those have been changed, in the ``scripts`` directory (in the main Suricata dir) there's a scrip that will generate images for all files: ``generate-images.sh`` (you'll have to install Mscgen for that to work).
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+More info about Mscgen can be found at: https://www.mcternan.me.uk/mscgen/