qemu/python
John Snow 3afa3501cb python: Re-lock pipenv at *oldest* supported versions
tox is already testing the most recent versions. Let's use pipenv to
test the oldest versions we claim to support. This matches the stylistic
choice to have pipenv always test our oldest supported Python version, 3.6.

The effect of this is that the python-check-pipenv CI job on gitlab will
now test against much older versions of these linters, which will help
highlight incompatible changes that might otherwise go unnoticed.

Update instructions for adding and bumping versions in setup.cfg. The
reason for deleting the line that gets added to Pipfile is largely just
to avoid having the version minimums specified in multiple places in
config checked into the tree.

(This patch was written by deleting Pipfile and Pipfile.lock, then
explicitly installing each dependency manually at a specific
version. Then, I restored the prior Pipfile and re-ran `pipenv lock
--dev --keep-outdated` to re-add the qemu dependency back to the pipenv
environment while keeping the "old" packages. It's annoying, yes, but I
think the improvement to test coverage is worthwhile.)

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210629214323.1329806-5-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-06-30 21:54:04 -04:00
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qemu python: Remove global pylint suppressions 2021-06-30 21:54:04 -04:00
tests python: add avocado-framework and tests 2021-06-01 16:21:21 -04:00
.gitignore python: add tox support 2021-06-01 16:21:21 -04:00
MANIFEST.in python: add MANIFEST.in 2021-06-01 16:21:21 -04:00
Makefile python: add tox support 2021-06-01 16:21:21 -04:00
PACKAGE.rst python: add Makefile for some common tasks 2021-06-01 16:21:21 -04:00
Pipfile python: add devel package requirements to setuptools 2021-06-01 16:21:21 -04:00
Pipfile.lock python: Re-lock pipenv at *oldest* supported versions 2021-06-30 21:54:04 -04:00
README.rst python: add Makefile for some common tasks 2021-06-01 16:21:21 -04:00
VERSION python: add VERSION file 2021-06-01 16:21:21 -04:00
avocado.cfg python: add avocado-framework and tests 2021-06-01 16:21:21 -04:00
setup.cfg python: Re-lock pipenv at *oldest* supported versions 2021-06-30 21:54:04 -04:00
setup.py python: add qemu package installer 2021-06-01 16:21:21 -04:00

README.rst

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.

Running ``make develop`` will pull in all testing dependencies and
install QEMU in editable mode to the current environment.

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.
- ``tests/`` Python package tests directory.
- ``avocado.cfg`` Configuration for the Avocado test-runner.
  Used by ``make check`` et al.
- ``Makefile`` provides some common testing/installation invocations.
  Try ``make help`` to see available targets.
- ``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.