Make the dependencies more like a standard Python project and hook up the optional dependencies to setuptools (#4298)

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst

index 02b3db1bc6..c4df779ac7 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Synapse is the reference Python/Twisted Matrix homeserver implementation.
 System requirements:
 
 - POSIX-compliant system (tested on Linux & OS X)
-- Python 3.5, 3.6, or 2.7
+- Python 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, or 2.7
 - At least 1GB of free RAM if you want to join large public rooms like #matrix:matrix.org
 
 Installing from source
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ To install the Synapse homeserver run::
     source ~/synapse/env/bin/activate
     pip install --upgrade pip
     pip install --upgrade setuptools
-    pip install matrix-synapse
+    pip install matrix-synapse[all]
 
 This installs Synapse, along with the libraries it uses, into a virtual
 environment under ``~/synapse/env``.  Feel free to pick a different directory
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ This Synapse installation can then be later upgraded by using pip again with the
 update flag::
 
     source ~/synapse/env/bin/activate
-    pip install -U matrix-synapse
+    pip install -U matrix-synapse[all]
 
 In case of problems, please see the _`Troubleshooting` section below.
 
@@ -826,8 +826,7 @@ to install using pip and a virtualenv::
 
     virtualenv -p python2.7 env
     source env/bin/activate
-    python -m synapse.python_dependencies | xargs pip install
-    pip install lxml mock
+    python -m pip install -e .[all]
 
 This will run a process of downloading and installing all the needed
 dependencies into a virtual env.
@@ -835,7 +834,7 @@ 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::
 
-    PYTHONPATH="." trial tests
+    python -m twisted.trial tests
 
 This should end with a 'PASSED' result::