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async-service
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Lifecycle management for async applications
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pip install async-service
If you would like to hack on async-service, please check out the Snake Charmers Tactical Manual for information on how we do:
You can set up your dev environment with:
git clone git@github.com:ethereum/async-service.git
cd async-service
virtualenv -p python3 venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .[dev]
During development, you might like to have tests run on every file save.
Show flake8 errors on file change:
# Test flake8
when-changed -v -s -r -1 async_service/ tests/ -c "clear; flake8 async_service tests && echo 'flake8 success' || echo 'error'"
Run multi-process tests in one command, but without color:
# in the project root:
pytest --numprocesses=4 --looponfail --maxfail=1
# the same thing, succinctly:
pytest -n 4 -f --maxfail=1
Run in one thread, with color and desktop notifications:
cd venv
ptw --onfail "notify-send -t 5000 'Test failure ⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠' 'python 3 test on async-service failed'" ../tests ../async_service
For Debian-like systems:
apt install pandoc
To release a new version:
make release bump=$$VERSION_PART_TO_BUMP$$
The version format for this repo is {major}.{minor}.{patch} for stable, and
{major}.{minor}.{patch}-{stage}.{devnum} for unstable (stage can be alpha or beta).
To issue the next version in line, specify which part to bump,
like make release bump=minor or make release bump=devnum. This is typically done from the
master branch, except when releasing a beta (in which case the beta is released from master,
and the previous stable branch is released from said branch).
If you are in a beta version, make release bump=stage will switch to a stable.
To issue an unstable version when the current version is stable, specify the
new version explicitly, like make release bump="--new-version 4.0.0-alpha.1 devnum"
FAQs
async-service: Lifecycle management for async applications
We found that async-service demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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