Installation¶
There are currently two main ways of installing aioxmpp:
- Installing from PyPI: this is recommended if you simply want to use aioxmpp in a project or need it as an dependency for something. It is not recommended if you want to hack on aioxmpp.
- Installing in editable mode from source: this is recommended if you want to hack on aioxmpp or if you anticipate requiring bugfixes or new features while you use aioxmpp.
Note
You can help adding a third (and then new first way, because that way is the one I prefer most) way: Become a package maintainer for aioxmpp for your favourite Linux distribution. rku was so kind to create an ArchLinux package in AUR, but other distributions are still lacking the awesomeness (;-)) of aioxmpp. You can change that.
Installing from PyPI¶
In theory, simply running
pip3 install aioxmpp
should install everything neccessary to run aioxmpp—except the development files for libxml2. You need to install these manually; how to do so depends on your distribution, here are some examples:
apt install libxml2-dev # debians
dnf install libxml2-devel # redhats
On ArchLinux, having libxml2 installed is sufficient; and as it is a dependency of lxml which in turn is a dependency of aioxmpp, you should have it already.
Note
There is also an AUR package for aioxmpp for ArchLinux. You might want to use that instead of installing using pip.
Installing in editable mode from source¶
Editable mode allows you to hack on aioxmpp while still being able to import it from everywhere. You can read more about it in the relevant chapter from the Python Packaging User Guide.
To install in editable mode, you first need a clone of the aioxmpp repository. Then you tell pip to install the local directory in editable mode. It will assume that you have all dependencies in place.
git clone https://github.com/horazont/aioxmpp
cd aioxmpp
git checkout devel # make sure to use the devel branch
pip3 install -e . # install in editable mode
If any dependencies are missing, you will notice rather quickly. Check the README to see what dependencies aioxmpp needs.
Running the unittests¶
To run the unittests, I personally recommend using the nosetests runner:
cd path/to/source/of/aioxmpp
nosetests3 tests
If any of the tests fail for you, this is worth a bug report.