System Setup

This repository provides a python script that will set up a development environment. To run it, open the Terminal application and paste this command:

curl -fSsL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/portlandcodeschool/initial-setup/master/system_setup.py | python

Developing on this script

For compatibility with as many Macs as possible, this script is targeted at python 2.6 through 3.3. Python 2.6 doesn't have with_statement or print_function in __future__, so it makes some compromises:

• calls to print are invoked as if they were a function: print("hello"). In python 3 this will in fact call the print function. In 2 it is the print statement with some irrelevant parentheses.
• open must be used with try: .../finally: close().
• Some imports must be wrapped in try/except ImportError because module names have changed.
• subprocess doesn't have check_output in 2.6, so you have to use Popen if you care about the command's output.

There is a Vagrantfile that'll launch an OSX 10.10 (Yosemite) virtual machine. You'll need Vagrant; once you have it you can say vagrant up. Note that the xcode-select --install step requires a GUI to be available, so you'll have to sign into the machine through the GUI. The username and password are both "vagrant". Once you're logged in you can use either Terminal.app inside the VM or vagrant ssh from outside it.

OSX VMs can't have synced folders, so you have to scp or copy/paste the script to test changes. :(