[obsolete] Set up a contributor environment¶

After having installed a developer environment, you may opt to “upgrade” into a “contributor environment” before actually diving into Lino.

No longer used:

contributor environment

An extended developer environment suitable for developers who plan to potentially contribute to the Lino framework. A bit more work to install, but more future-proof.

The main new thing as a contributor is that you have a local clone of each Lino code repository because you are going to do local modifications and submit pull requests. Getlino does the work of cloning and installing them as editable (with pip install -e) into your virtualenv.

Run getlino to clone Lino repositories¶

We are going to throw away your developer virtualenv and replace it by a new one:

$ mv ~/lino/env ~/lino/old_env
$ python3 -m venv ~/lino/env
$ source ~/lino/env/bin/activate
$ pip install -U pip setuptools

Note that after moving a virtualenv to another directory you cannot use it anymore. Python virtualenvs are not designed to support renaming. But you may rename it back to its old name in case you want to go back.

You are now in a new virgin Python virtualenv. You can say pip freeze to verify.

Note that this virgin virtualenv is now your default environment because you created it under the same location as your first virtualenv.

Before going on you should delete the getlino configuration file that was created when installing your Lino developer environment:

$ rm ~/.getlino.conf
$ sudo rm /etc/getlino/getlino.conf