qemu/python/README.rst
John Snow dbe75f5566 python: add devel package requirements to setuptools
setuptools doesn't have a formal understanding of development requires,
but it has an optional feataures section. Fine; add a "devel" feature
and add the requirements to it.

To avoid duplication, we can modify pipenv to install qemu[devel]
instead. This enables us to run invocations like "pip install -e
.[devel]" and test the package on bleeding-edge packages beyond those
specified in Pipfile.lock.

Importantly, this also allows us to install the qemu development
packages in a non-networked mode: `pip3 install --no-index -e .[devel]`
will now fail if the proper development dependencies are not already
met. This can be useful for automated build scripts where fetching
network packages may be undesirable.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210527211715.394144-27-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-01 16:21:21 -04:00

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QEMU Python Tooling
===================
This directory houses Python tooling used by the QEMU project to build,
configure, and test QEMU. It is organized by namespace (``qemu``), and
then by package (e.g. ``qemu/machine``, ``qemu/qmp``, etc).
``setup.py`` is used by ``pip`` to install this tooling to the current
environment. ``setup.cfg`` provides the packaging configuration used by
``setup.py`` in a setuptools specific format. You will generally invoke
it by doing one of the following:
1. ``pip3 install .`` will install these packages to your current
environment. If you are inside a virtual environment, they will
install there. If you are not, it will attempt to install to the
global environment, which is **not recommended**.
2. ``pip3 install --user .`` will install these packages to your user's
local python packages. If you are inside of a virtual environment,
this will fail; you likely want the first invocation above.
If you append the ``-e`` argument, pip will install in "editable" mode;
which installs a version of the package that installs a forwarder
pointing to these files, such that the package always reflects the
latest version in your git tree.
Installing ".[devel]" instead of "." will additionally pull in required
packages for testing this package. They are not runtime requirements,
and are not needed to simply use these libraries.
See `Installing packages using pip and virtual environments
<https://packaging.python.org/guides/installing-using-pip-and-virtual-environments/>`_
for more information.
Files in this directory
-----------------------
- ``qemu/`` Python package source directory.
- ``MANIFEST.in`` is read by python setuptools, it specifies additional files
that should be included by a source distribution.
- ``PACKAGE.rst`` is used as the README file that is visible on PyPI.org.
- ``Pipfile`` is used by Pipenv to generate ``Pipfile.lock``.
- ``Pipfile.lock`` is a set of pinned package dependencies that this package
is tested under in our CI suite. It is used by ``make venv-check``.
- ``README.rst`` you are here!
- ``VERSION`` contains the PEP-440 compliant version used to describe
this package; it is referenced by ``setup.cfg``.
- ``setup.cfg`` houses setuptools package configuration.
- ``setup.py`` is the setuptools installer used by pip; See above.