Setting up a development environment

Setting up a development environment for Sync consists of cloning the main repository and running a make. Before you do this make sure you have:

  • Python 2.6 (default under Debuntu, python26 under CentOS)
  • Python 2.6 headers (python2.6-dev under Debuntu, python26-devel under CentOS)
  • python26-profiler under Ubuntu
  • Mercurial
  • Distribute
  • Virtualenv

Then run:

$ hg clone http://hg.mozilla.com/services/server-full
$ cd server-full
$ make build

Once this is done, you can do a sanity check by running all tests:

$ make test