Development guide

This section contains information on building and installing PyWavelets from source code as well as instructions for preparing the build environment on Windows and Linux.

• Preparing Windows build environment
  • Installing Windows SDK C/C++ compiler
  • MinGW C/C++ compiler
  • Next steps
• Preparing Linux build environment
  • Installing basic build tools
  • Next steps
• Installing build dependencies
  • Setting up Python virtual environment
  • Installing Cython
  • Installing numpy
  • Installing Sphinx
• Building and installing PyWavelets
  • Installing from source code
  • Installing a development version
  • Installing a regular release from PyPi
• Testing
  • Continous integration with Travis-CI
  • Running tests locally
  • Running tests with Tox
• Guidelines for Releasing PyWavelets
  • Updating the release notes
  • Tag the release
  • Build Windows, OS X and Linux wheels and upload to PyPI
  • Create the source distribution
  • Upload the release to PyPI
  • Update conda-forge
  • Create the release on GitHub
  • Announcing the release
  • Prepare for continued development

Something not working?

If these instructions are not clear or you need help setting up your development environment, go ahead and ask on the PyWavelets discussion group at http://groups.google.com/group/pywavelets or open a ticket on GitHub.