Canbus Explorer: Developer Setup

I use the following tools in my development environment:

• PyCharm
• Python 2.7
• Virtualenv
• PySide (Qt GUI framework bindings)
• Setuptools
• Sphinx

I also use the following online services:

• Github
• Travis CI
• readthedocs

Qt4 UI Workflow

Of all the possible workflows, i’m currently using Qt4 Designer to edit the src/resources/main_window.ui and pyside-uic to auto-generate a Python class containing the UI elements:

[user@host ~]$ pyside-uic src/resources/main_window.ui > src/canbus_explorer/autogen/main_window.py

This UI is then loaded in src/canbus_explorer/gui.py.

RPM Package Building

Ensure the rpm-build package is installed, then run:

[user@host ~]$ python setup.py bdist_rpm --fix-python

This will generate an RPM package with the details from setup.py and the dependencies specified in setup.cfg.