Err development environment

This documentation is intended for people wanting to contribute to Err itself

Running the unittests

You need nose to autodiscover and run the tests (pip install nose). There is a little helper in the root :

./run_tests.py 

You can pass on some options like -v to have more feedback :

./run_tests.py -v

Debugging different backends.

In order to avoid having to change your config everytime your want to test a feature under a new backend, you can make a config per backend like :

config_xmpp.py
config_irc.py

config.py will be loaded first then any parameter in those specific one will override the made ones.