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| author | Sean Quah <8349537+squahtx@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-10-29 14:03:58 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-10-29 14:03:58 +0100 |
| commit | 3ed17ff651a39d64288c38cd56ecef3603a31d04 (patch) | |
| tree | 00be448a1ba6aac4828101279b19fa70087ac734 /docs/development/contributing_guide.md | |
| parent | Additional type hints for relations database class. (#11205) (diff) | |
| download | synapse-3ed17ff651a39d64288c38cd56ecef3603a31d04.tar.xz | |
Clarify lack of Windows support in documentation (#11198)
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/development/contributing_guide.md b/docs/development/contributing_guide.md index 3bf08a72bb..abdb808438 100644 --- a/docs/development/contributing_guide.md +++ b/docs/development/contributing_guide.md @@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ license - in our case, this is almost always Apache Software License v2 (see # 2. What do I need? +If you are running Windows, the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is strongly +recommended for development. More information about WSL can be found at +<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install>. Running Synapse natively +on Windows is not officially supported. + The code of Synapse is written in Python 3. To do pretty much anything, you'll need [a recent version of Python 3](https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Download). The source code of Synapse is hosted on GitHub. You will also need [a recent version of git](https://github.com/git-guides/install-git). @@ -41,8 +46,6 @@ can find many good git tutorials on the web. # 4. Install the dependencies -## Under Unix (macOS, Linux, BSD, ...) - Once you have installed Python 3 and added the source, please open a terminal and setup a *virtualenv*, as follows: @@ -56,10 +59,6 @@ pip install tox This will install the developer dependencies for the project. -## Under Windows - -TBD - # 5. Get in touch. |