Setup Development Environment - KnowledgeLinks/alliance-bibcat GitHub Wiki

Download and install the latest Python 3 distribution (currently 3.6) from the Python website.

Create and Activate a Python Virtual Environment for Development from your OS command-line

python -m venv py3-dev
source py3-dev/bin/activate # for Linux and MacOS
py3-env\Scripts\activate # for Windows

Clone Alliance BIBCAT source code repository

git clone https://github.com/KnowledgeLinks/alliance-bibcat

Change to that directory

cd alliance-bibcat

Init and Update the BIBCAT and RDFW submodules
```
git submodule init
git submodule update
```

Change to the development branch and pull in latest changes

git checkout -b development 
git pull origin development

Install Python Dependencies using pip
```
pip install -r requirements.txt 
```
Make an instance directory for development configuration
```
mkdir instance
```
Create a config.py file
```
touch config.py
```

Open config.py in a text editor and the following lines to the top of the file:

import os
import sys
sys.path.append(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)))
from example_instance.config import *