Introduction

This is a simple library for managing interactions between server programs and client programs. In the future it would be interesting to explore using gRPC or zeromq.

Prerequisites

flyrpc only supports Python3, so in the commands below, pip should refer to a Python3 install. You can either install Python3 directly or through a package manager like Conda.

Installation

1. Open a terminal, and note the current directory, since the pip command below will clone some code from GitHub and place it in a subdirectory called src. If you prefer to place the cloned code in a different directory, you can specify that by providing the --src flag to pip.
2. Install flyrpc with pip:

> git clone https://github.com/ClandininLab/flyrpc.git
> cd flyrpc
> pip install -e .

If you get a permissions error when running the pip command, you can try adding the --user flag. This will cause pip to install packages in your user directory rather than to a system-wide location.