Development

Setting up a development environment only requires a few steps, and is similar on each platform.

• Install Python 3.6+ using standard installer processes (apt on Linux, brew on Mac, and Windows packages from Pythons website).
• Clone EnergyPlus-Launch repository using Git: git clone https://github.com/NREL/EP-Launch
• Change into the cloned directory: cd EP-Launch
• Set up a virtual environment where the Python dependencies can be installed using python3 -m venv .\venv
• Activate the virtual environment as needed (activate scripts will live in venv/bin/…)
• Install dependencies using pip install -r requirements.txt
• At this point you should be able to run EnergyPlus-Launch: python3 eplaunch\runner.py or python3 -m eplaunch
• You can also run the test suite by executing the nose test binary: nosetests