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diff --git a/docs/contributing.txt b/docs/contributing.txt index fd5012cb68..910a295f0f 100644 --- a/docs/contributing.txt +++ b/docs/contributing.txt @@ -739,6 +739,26 @@ If you're using another backend: deleted when the tests are finished. This means your user account needs permission to execute ``CREATE DATABASE``. +If you want to run the full suite of tests, there are a number of dependencies that +you should install: + + * PyYAML_ + * Markdown_ + * Textile_ + * Docutils_ + * setuptools_ + +Of these dependencies, setuptools_ is the only dependency that is required - if +setuptools_ is not installed, you will get import errors when running one of +the template tests. The tests using the other libraries will be skipped if the +Django the dependency can't be found. + +.. _PyYAML: http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML +.. _Markdown: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Markdown/1.7 +.. _Textile: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/textile +.. _docutils: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/docutils/0.4 +.. _setuptools: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/ + To run a subset of the unit tests, append the names of the test modules to the ``runtests.py`` command line. See the list of directories in ``tests/modeltests`` and ``tests/regressiontests`` for module names. |