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Gomill requires Python 2.5, 2.6, or 2.7.
For Python 2.5 only, the --parallel feature requires the external multiprocessing package.
Gomill is intended to run on any modern Unix-like system.
Gomill is distributed as a pure-Python source archive, gomill-version.tar.gz. The most recent version can be obtained from http://mjw.woodcraft.me.uk/gomill/.
This documentation is distributed separately as gomill-doc-version.tar.gz.
Once you have downloaded the source archive, extract it using a command like tar -xzf gomill-version.tar.gz. This will create a directory named gomill-version, referred to below as the distribution directory.
The ringmaster executable in the distribution directory can be run directly without any further installation; it will use the copy of the gomill package in the distribution directory.
A symbolic link to the ringmaster executable will also work, but if you move the executable elsewhere it will not be able to find the gomill package unless the package is installed.
Installing Gomill puts the gomill package onto the Python module search path, and the ringmaster executable onto the executable PATH.
To install, first change to the distribution directory, then:
to install for the system as a whole, run (as a sufficiently privileged user)
python setup.py install to install for the current user only (Python 2.6 or 2.7), run
python setup.py install --user Pass --dry-run to see what these will do. See http://docs.python.org/2.7/install/ for more information.
To remove an installed version of Gomill, run
python setup.py uninstall (This uses the Python module search path and the executable PATH to find the files to remove; pass --dry-run to see what it will do.)
To run the testsuite against the distributed gomill package, change to the distribution directory and run
python -m gomill_tests.run_gomill_testsuite To run the testsuite against an installed gomill package, change to the distribution directory and run
python test_installed_gomill.py To run the example scripts, it is simplest to install the gomill package first.
If you do not wish to do so, you can run
export PYTHONPATH=<path to the distribution directory> so that the example scripts will be able to find the gomill package.
The sources for this HTML documentation are included in the Gomill source archive. To rebuild the documentation, change to the distribution directory and run
python setup.py build_sphinx The documentation will be generated in build/sphinx/html.
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