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Development Guide

This is a guide for developers who would like to contribute to this project.

GitHub Workflow

If you're interested in contributing to mycli, first of all my heart felt thanks. Fork the project in github. Then clone your fork into your computer (git clone <url-for-your-fork>). Make the changes and create the commits in your local machine. Then push those changes to your fork. Then click on the pull request icon on github and create a new pull request. Add a description about the change and send it along. I promise to review the pull request in a reasonable window of time and get back to you.

In order to keep your fork up to date with any changes from mainline, add a new git remote to your local copy called 'upstream' and point it to the main mycli repo.

$ git remote add upstream git@github.com:dbcli/mycli.git

Once the 'upstream' end point is added you can then periodically do a git pull upstream master to update your local copy and then do a git push origin master to keep your own fork up to date.

Local Setup

The installation instructions in the README file are intended for users of mycli. If you're developing mycli, you'll need to install it in a slightly different way so you can see the effects of your changes right away without having to go through the install cycle everytime you change the code.

It is highly recommended to use virtualenv for development. If you don't know what a virtualenv is, this guide will help you get started.

Create a virtualenv (let's call it mycli-dev). Activate it:

source ./mycli-dev/bin/activate

Once the virtualenv is activated, cd into the local clone of mycli folder and install mycli using pip as follows:

$ pip install --editable .

or

$ pip install -e .

This will install the necessary dependencies as well as install mycli from the working folder into the virtualenv. By installing it using pip install -e we've linked the mycli installation with the working copy. So any changes made to the code is immediately available in the installed version of mycli. This makes it easy to change something in the code, launch mycli and check the effects of your change.

Building DEB package from scratch

First pip install make-deb. Then run make-deb. It will create a debian folder after asking a few questions like maintainer name, email etc.

$ vagrant up