Update the readme to use trial

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Richard van der Hoff 2016-12-09 17:05:26 +00:00
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@ -88,7 +88,12 @@ System requirements:
- Python 2.7
- At least 1GB of free RAM if you want to join large public rooms like #matrix:matrix.org
Synapse is written in python but some of the libraries is uses are written in
Installing from source
----------------------
(Prebuilt packages are available for some platforms - see `Platform-Specific
Instructions`_.)
Synapse is written in python but some of the libraries it uses are written in
C. So before we can install synapse itself we need a working C compiler and the
header files for python C extensions.
@ -302,7 +307,7 @@ See https://github.com/vector-im/vector-web/issues/1977 and
https://developer.github.com/changes/2014-04-25-user-content-security for more details.
Platform Specific Instructions
Platform-Specific Instructions
==============================
Debian
@ -759,6 +764,10 @@ Then update the `users` table in the database::
Synapse Development
===================
Before setting up a development environment for synapse, make sure you have the
system dependencies (such as the python header files) installed - see
`Installing from source`_.
To check out a synapse for development, clone the git repo into a working
directory of your choice::
@ -770,8 +779,8 @@ to install using pip and a virtualenv::
virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate
python synapse/python_dependencies.py | xargs -n1 pip install
pip install setuptools_trial mock
python synapse/python_dependencies.py | xargs pip install
pip install lxml mock
This will run a process of downloading and installing all the needed
dependencies into a virtual env.
@ -779,7 +788,7 @@ dependencies into a virtual env.
Once this is done, you may wish to run Synapse's unit tests, to
check that everything is installed as it should be::
python setup.py test
PYTHONPATH="" trial tests
This should end with a 'PASSED' result::