Project contribution guide

Step 1: setup the environment

Linux

# make sure you have installed:
#   bash
#   git
#   python
#   GNU make, sed, awk
#
# then clone the repo
git clone ${pyroute2_git_url}
cd pyroute2

# create and activate virtualenv
python -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate

# update pip and install nox
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install nox

# run the test cycle
nox

OpenBSD

# install required tools
pkg_add bash git gmake gsed python

# clone the repo
git clone ${pyroute_git_url}
cd pyroute2

# create and activate virtualenv
python3.10 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate

# update pip and install nox
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install nox

# run the platform specific environment
nox -e openbsd

Step 2: make a change

The project is designed to work on the bare standard library. But some embedded environments strip even the stdlib, removing modules like sqlite3.

So to run pyroute2 even in such environments, the project provdes two packages, pyroute2 and pyroute2.minimal, with the latter providing a minimal distribution, but using no sqlite3 or pickle.

Modules pyroute2 and pyroute2.minimal are mutually exclusive.

Each module provides it's own pypi package. More details: https://github.com/svinota/pyroute2/discussions/786

Step 3: test the change

Assume the environment is already set up on the step 1. Thus:

# run code checks
nox -e linter

# run unit tests
nox -e unit

# run functional test, some require root
nox -e linux-3.10

Step 4: submit a PR

The primary repo for the project is on Github. All the PRs are more than welcome there.

Requirements to a PR

The code must comply some requirements:

• the library must work on Python >= 3.6.

• the code must pass nox -e linter

• the code must not break existing unit and functional tests

• the ctypes usage must not break the library on SELinux