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Thomas De Schampheleire
setup.py: support Paste 3.0.x

In a fresh virtualenv on the stable branch, pastescript 3.0.0 is installed
which depends on paste 3.0.x. Using this virtualenv to upgrade to the
default branch, using 'pip install --upgrade -e .' fails because on the
default branch, the paste version is restricted with '>= 2.0.3, < 3'.
Following error occurs:

pastescript 3.0.0 has requirement Paste>=3.0, but you'll have paste 2.0.3 which is incompatible.
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File ".../kallithea/kallithea-release/setup.py", line 160, in <module>
""",
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 151, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File ".../kallithea/venv/kallithea-release/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/develop.py", line 36, in run
self.install_for_development()
File ".../kallithea/venv/kallithea-release/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/develop.py", line 117, in install_for_development
self.run_command('egg_info')
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py", line 326, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File ".../kallithea/venv/kallithea-release/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 270, in run
ep.require(installer=installer)
File ".../kallithea/venv/kallithea-release/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2307, in require
items = working_set.resolve(reqs, env, installer)
File ".../kallithea/venv/kallithea-release/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 854, in resolve
raise VersionConflict(dist, req).with_context(dependent_req)
pkg_resources.VersionConflict: (Paste 2.0.3 (.../kallithea/venv/kallithea-release/lib/python2.7/site-packages), Requirement.parse('Paste>=3.0'))


The '< 3' restriction is introduced with commit
e1ab826131334150b1f003e26de3207c34fc6e67 in January 2017, at which point
2.0.3 was the latest version. Version 3.0.0 was introduced in October 2018.

Paste has a new maintainer and moved to github, after years of
inactivity (March 2016 -> Oct 2018). There have AFAICS not been
incompatible changes. This analysis is based on:
- the news file: https://pythonpaste.readthedocs.io/en/latest/news.html
- the commit message of the 3.0.0 release:
(https://github.com/cdent/paste/commit/9ceef07267ba83ea5c00533f85f9edf9ba38cd71)

"This is for the sake of getting something out there, including
fixes to get stuff working with Python 3.7."

- and a walk through the commits since 2.0.3 on github
(https://github.com/cdent/paste/commits/master).
.. _customization:

=============
Customization
=============

There are several ways to customize Kallithea to your needs depending on what
you want to achieve.


HTML/JavaScript/CSS customization
---------------------------------

To customize the look-and-feel of the web interface (for example to add a
company banner or some JavaScript widget or to tweak the CSS style definitions)
you can enter HTML code (possibly with JavaScript and/or CSS) directly via the
*Admin > Settings > Global > HTML/JavaScript customization
block*.


Style sheet customization with Less
-----------------------------------

Kallithea uses `Bootstrap 3`_ and Less_ for its style definitions. If you want
to make some customizations, we recommend to do so by creating a ``theme.less``
file. When you create a file named ``theme.less`` in the Kallithea root
directory, you can use this file to override the default style. For example,
you can use this to override ``@kallithea-theme-main-color``,
``@kallithea-logo-url`` or other `Bootstrap variables`_.

After creating the ``theme.less`` file, you need to regenerate the CSS files, by
running::

    kallithea-cli front-end-build --no-install-deps

.. _bootstrap 3: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.3/
.. _bootstrap variables: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.3/customize/#less-variables
.. _less: http://lesscss.org/


Behavioral customization: rcextensions
--------------------------------------

Some behavioral customization can be done in Python using ``rcextensions``, a
custom Python package that can extend Kallithea functionality.

With ``rcextensions`` it's possible to add additional mappings for Whoosh
indexing and statistics, to add additional code into the push/pull/create/delete
repository hooks (for example to send signals to build bots such as Jenkins) and
even to monkey-patch certain parts of the Kallithea source code (for example
overwrite an entire function, change a global variable, ...).

To generate a skeleton extensions package, run::

    kallithea-cli extensions-create -c my.ini

This will create an ``rcextensions`` package next to the specified ``ini`` file.
See the ``__init__.py`` file inside the generated ``rcextensions`` package
for more details.


Behavioral customization: code changes
--------------------------------------

As Kallithea is open-source software, you can make any changes you like directly
in the source code.

We encourage you to send generic improvements back to the
community so that Kallithea can become better. See :ref:`contributing` for more
details.