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diff --git a/docs/development/contributing_guide.md b/docs/development/contributing_guide.md index 121f7c0687..8448685952 100644 --- a/docs/development/contributing_guide.md +++ b/docs/development/contributing_guide.md @@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ 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 code of Synapse is written in Python 3. To do pretty much anything, you'll need [a recent version of Python 3](https://www.python.org/downloads/). Your Python also needs support for [virtual environments](https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html). This is usually built-in, but some Linux distributions like Debian and Ubuntu split it out into its own package. Running `sudo apt install python3-venv` should be enough. + +Synapse can connect to PostgreSQL via the [psycopg2](https://pypi.org/project/psycopg2/) Python library. Building this library from source requires access to PostgreSQL's C header files. On Debian or Ubuntu Linux, these can be installed with `sudo apt install libpq-dev`. 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). @@ -53,6 +55,7 @@ setup a *virtualenv*, as follows: cd path/where/you/have/cloned/the/repository python3 -m venv ./env source ./env/bin/activate +pip install wheel pip install -e ".[all,dev]" pip install tox ``` @@ -114,7 +117,7 @@ The linters look at your code and do two things: - ensure that your code follows the coding style adopted by the project; - catch a number of errors in your code. -They're pretty fast, don't hesitate! +The linter takes no time at all to run as soon as you've [downloaded the dependencies into your python virtual environment](#4-install-the-dependencies). ```sh source ./env/bin/activate |