44 lines
1.9 KiB
ReStructuredText
44 lines
1.9 KiB
ReStructuredText
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.
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
- ``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.
|