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Copyright 2010-2011 United States Government as represented by the
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
under the License.
Setting Up a Development Environment
====================================
This page describes how to setup a working Python development environment that
can be used in developing on OpenStack on Ubuntu, Fedora or Mac OS X. These
instructions assume you're already familiar with git. Refer to
http://wiki.openstack.org/GettingTheCode for additional information.
Virtual environments
--------------------
Nova development uses `virtualenv <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv>`_
to track and manage Python dependencies while in development and testing. This
allows you to install all of the Python package dependencies in a virtual
environment or `virtualenv` (a special subdirectory of your nova directory),
instead of installing the packages at the system level.
Virtualenv is useful for running the unit tests, but is not typically used
for full integration testing or production usage.
Linux Systems
-------------
Note: This section is tested for Nova on Ubuntu (10.10-64) and
Fedora-based (RHEL 6.1) distributions. Feel free to add notes and change
according to your experiences or operating system.
Install the prerequisite packages.
On Ubuntu::
sudo apt-get install python-dev swig libssl-dev python-pip git-core
On Fedora-based distributions (e.g., Fedora/RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux)::
sudo yum install python-devel swig openssl-devel python-pip git
Mac OS X Systems
----------------
Install swig, which is needed to build the M2Crypto Python package. If you are
using the `homebrew <http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/>`_, package manager,
install swig by doing::
brew install swig
Install virtualenv::
sudo easy_install virtualenv
Check the version of OpenSSL you have installed::
openssl version
If you have installed OpenSSL 1.0.0a, which can happen when installing a
MacPorts package for OpenSSL, you will see an error when running
``nova.tests.auth_unittest.AuthTestCase.test_209_can_generate_x509``.
The stock version of OpenSSL that ships with Mac OS X 10.6 (OpenSSL 0.9.8l)
or Mac OS X 10.7 (OpenSSL 0.9.8r) works fine with nova.
Getting the code
----------------
Grab the code from GitHub::
git clone https://github.com/openstack/nova.git
cd nova
Running unit tests
------------------
The unit tests will run by default inside a virtualenv in the ``.nova-venv``
directory. Run the unit tests by doing::
./run_tests.sh
The first time you run them, you will be asked if you want to create a virtual
environment (hit "y")::
No virtual environment found...create one? (Y/n)
Manually installing and using the virtualenv
--------------------------------------------
You can manually install the virtual environment instead of having
``run_tests.sh`` do it for you::
python tools/install_venv.py
This will install all of the Python packages listed in the
``tools/pip-requires`` file into your virtualenv. There will also be some
additional packages (pip, distribute, greenlet, M2Crypto) that are installed
by the ``tools/install_venv.py`` file into the virutalenv.
If all goes well, you should get a message something like this::
Nova development environment setup is complete.
To activate the Nova virtualenv for the extent of your current shell session
you can run::
$ source .nova-venv/bin/activate
Or, if you prefer, you can run commands in the virtualenv on a case by case
basis by running::
$ tools/with_venv.sh <your command>
Contributing Your Work
----------------------
Once your work is complete you may wish to contribute it to the project. Add
your name and email address to the `Authors` file, and also to the `.mailmap`
file if you use multiple email addresses. Your contributions can not be merged
into trunk unless you are listed in the Authors file. Nova uses the Gerrit
code review system. For information on how to submit your branch to Gerrit,
see http://wiki.openstack.org/GerritWorkflow