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authorMichael H Wilson <geekinutah@gmail.com>2014-05-15 18:05:03 -0400
committerMichael H Wilson <geekinutah@gmail.com>2014-05-19 13:23:06 -0600
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Add a reference to the nova developer documentation
I've showed these docs to more people than I care to. It would be extremely helpful to reference them in HACKING, which is generally the first thing people read if they intend to hack. Change-Id: I9194d98f5525e29711b4a1b26414a50b8ceba525
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@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ testr arguments that are needed to tox. For example, you can run:
``tox -- --analyze-isolation`` to cause tox to tell testr to add
--analyze-isolation to its argument list.
+Python packages may also have dependencies that are outside of tox's ability
+to install. Please refer to doc/source/devref/development.environment.rst for
+a list of those packages on Ubuntu, Fedora and Mac OS X.
+
It is also possible to run the tests inside of a virtual environment
you have created, or it is possible that you have all of the dependencies
installed locally already. In this case, you can interact with the testr