[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2] INSTALL.md: Note use of "hacking" flake8 plugin.

Russell Bryant russell at ovn.org
Thu Jun 2 19:53:46 UTC 2016


The automatic flake8 check that runs against Python code has some
warnings enabled that come from the "hacking" flake8 plugin.  If it's
not installed, the warnings just won't occur until it's run on a system
with "hacking" installed.

Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org>
---
 INSTALL.md | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)


v1->v2:
 - Add more explanation about what happens when "hacking" is missing
   to INSTALL.md.  This explanation was previously only in the commit
   message.


diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
index 8a4a5b3..1c7aa70 100644
--- a/INSTALL.md
+++ b/INSTALL.md
@@ -119,7 +119,11 @@ installing the following to obtain better warnings:
 
   - clang, version 3.4 or later
 
-  - flake8 (for Python code)
+  - “flake8”, along with the “hacking” flake8 plugin (for Python code).
+    The automatic flake8 check that runs against Python code has some
+    warnings enabled that come from the "hacking" flake8 plugin.  If it's
+    not installed, the warnings just won't occur until it's run on a system
+    with "hacking" installed.
 
 Also, you may find the ovs-dev script found in utilities/ovs-dev.py useful.
 
-- 
2.5.5




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