Setting up a development environment

This software involves some IPC with SymPy which makes debugging complicated.

Here is one of the main dev's workflow: feel free to edit or add alternatives!

Dev workflow

Setting up in-tree development use while also possibly using

cd src      # or whereever you keep your code
git clone https://github.com/cbm755/octsympy.git
git clone https://github.com/sympy/sympy.git
cd octsympy/inst/
# symlink the sympy module to inside the inst dir
ln -s ~/src/sympy/sympy sympy
octave

That is, Octave is running inside the inst dir.

• Some code can then be changed on the fly, requiring a sympref reset.
• But there is also a little dance of clearing Octave's object cache, which I can't recall at the moment. This is needed if you modify files inside @sym/ for example. TODO: doc this better!
• Now one can change SymPy branches (by just changing into sympy and git switch ... or whatever).

Alternatives?

Are you using something different? Feel free to describe it here!