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Thomas De Schampheleire

dependencies: remove duplicate dependencies in dev_requirements.txt

Babel and WebOb were present both in setup.py and dev_requirements.txt.
When explicitly setting minimum dependencies in setup.py and running:

pip install --upgrade -e . -r dev_requirements.txt python-ldap python-pam

this duplication replaced useful diagnostic message from pip with less
useful ones.
For example, the following message was displayed when the Babel dependency
duplication is present:

kallithea 0.4.0rc1 has requirement Babel<2.7,==0.9.6, but you'll have babel 2.6.0 which is incompatible.

When removing the duplication in dev_requirements.txt, this becomes:

sphinx 1.7.9 has requirement babel!=2.0,>=1.3, but you'll have babel 0.9.6 which is incompatible.

which makes it clear that to solve this problem, we need to bump the minimum
dependency for Babel in setup.py from 0.9.6 to 1.3.

.. _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.