For Developers¶
If you would like to contribute to virtualenvwrapper directly, these instructions should help you get started. Patches, bug reports, and feature requests are all welcome through the GitHub site. Contributions in the form of patches or pull requests are easier to integrate and will receive priority attention.
Note
Before contributing new features to virtualenvwrapper core, please consider whether they should be implemented as an extension instead.
Building Documentation¶
The documentation for virtualenvwrapper is written in reStructuredText and converted to HTML using Sphinx. The build itself is driven by make. You will need the following packages in order to build the docs:
Sphinx
docutils
sphinxcontrib-bitbucket
Once all of the tools are installed into a virtualenv using
pip, run make html
to generate the HTML version of the
documentation:
$ make html
rm -rf virtualenvwrapper/docs
(cd docs && make html SPHINXOPTS="-c sphinx/pkg")
sphinx-build -b html -d build/doctrees -c sphinx/pkg source build/html
Running Sphinx v0.6.4
loading pickled environment... done
building [html]: targets for 2 source files that are out of date
updating environment: 0 added, 2 changed, 0 removed
reading sources... [ 50%] command_ref
reading sources... [100%] developers
looking for now-outdated files... none found
pickling environment... done
checking consistency... done
preparing documents... done
writing output... [ 33%] command_ref
writing output... [ 66%] developers
writing output... [100%] index
writing additional files... search
copying static files... WARNING: static directory '/Users/dhellmann/Devel/virtualenvwrapper/plugins/docs/sphinx/pkg/static' does not exist
done
dumping search index... done
dumping object inventory... done
build succeeded, 1 warning.
Build finished. The HTML pages are in build/html.
cp -r docs/build/html virtualenvwrapper/docs
The output version of the documentation ends up in
./virtualenvwrapper/docs
inside your sandbox.
Running Tests¶
The test suite for virtualenvwrapper uses shunit2 and tox. The
shunit2 source is included in the tests
directory, but tox must be
installed separately (pip install tox
).
To run the tests under bash and zsh for the default Python,
run tox
from the top level directory of the hg repository:
$ tox
To run individual test scripts, use a command like:
$ tox -- tests/test_cd.sh
To run tests under a single version of Python, specify the appropriate environment when running tox:
$ tox -e py311
Combine the two modes to run specific tests with a single version of Python:
$ tox -e py311 -- tests/test_cd.sh
To stop the test suite as soon as any test fails, use the fast tox target:
$ tox -e fast
Add new tests by modifying an existing file or creating new script in
the tests
directory.
Creating a New Template¶
virtualenvwrapper.project templates work like virtualenvwrapper
plugins.
The entry point group name is
virtualenvwrapper.project.template
. Configure your entry point to
refer to a function that will run (source hooks are not supported
for templates).
The argument to the template function is the name of the project being
created. The current working directory is the directory created to
hold the project files ($PROJECT_HOME/$envname
).
Help Text¶
One difference between project templates and other virtualenvwrapper
extensions is that only the templates specified by the user are run.
The mkproject
command has a help option to give the user a list of
the available templates. The names are taken from the registered
entry point names, and the descriptions are taken from the docstrings
for the template functions.