vcstools uses setuptools, which you will need to download and install in order to run the packaging. We use setuptools instead of distutils in order to be able use setup() keys like install_requires.
Configure your PYTHONPATH:
cd vcstools
. setup.sh
OR:
cd vcstools
python setup.py install
The first will prepend vcstools/src to your PYTHONPATH. The second will install vcstools into your dist/site-packages.
Install test dependencies
pip install nose
pip install mock
rospkg uses Python nose for testing, which is a fairly simple and straightfoward test framework. The vcstools mainly use unittest to construct test fixtures, but with nose you can also just write a function that starts with the name test and use normal assert statements.
vcstools also uses mock to create mocks for testing.
You can run the tests, including coverage, as follows:
cd vcstools
make test
Sphinx is used to provide API documentation for vcstools. The documents are stored in the doc subdirectory.