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borg/docs/development.rst
Thomas Waldmann d65ca51d54 deduplicate and refactor the docs
README.rst (shown on github and also at the start of the html docs) shall
be like an elevator speech - convince readers in a very short time.
this is most important, everything else can come after we got the reader's interest.

include README into docs to avoid duplication.
also include CHANGES into docs.
add developer docs, move examples from tox.ini there
add separate support docs
remove glossary, most of what was there can be understood by an admin from context
move attic and compatibility note to the end
2015-08-06 12:59:51 +02:00

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.. include:: global.rst.inc
.. _development:
Development
===========
This chapter will get you started with |project_name|' development.
|project_name| is written in Python (with a little bit of Cython and C for
the performance critical parts).
Building a development environment
----------------------------------
First, just install borg into a virtual env as described before.
To install some additional packages needed for running the tests, activate your
virtual env and run::
pip install -r requirements.d/development.txt
Running the tests
-----------------
The tests are in the borg/testsuite package.
To run them, you need to have fakeroot, tox and pytest installed.
To run the test suite use the following command::
fakeroot -u tox # run all tests
Some more advanced examples::
# verify a changed tox.ini (run this after any change to tox.ini):
fakeroot -u tox --recreate
fakeroot -u tox -e py32 # run all tests, but only on python 3.2
fakeroot -u tox borg.testsuite.locking # only run 1 test module
fakeroot -u tox borg.testsuite.locking -- -k '"not Timer"' # exclude some tests
fakeroot -u tox borg.testsuite -- -v # verbose py.test
Important notes:
- Without fakeroot -u some tests will fail.
- When using -- to give options to py.test, you MUST also give borg.testsuite[.module].
Building the docs with Sphinx
-----------------------------
The documentation (in reStructuredText format, .rst) is in docs/.
To build the html version of it, you need to have sphinx installed::
pip3 install sphinx
Now run::
cd docs/
make html
Then point a web browser at docs/_build/html/index.html.