======== P4Python

:Author: Richard Brooksby rb@ravenbrook.com :Organization: Ravenbrook Limited http://www.ravenbrook.com/

.. note::

This repository is obsolete.  Perforce Software support pip
installation themselves starting at version 2016.1.  Just try::

    pip install p4python

Thank you, Perforce!

This is P4Python, the Python interface to the Perforce API , enables you to write Python code that interacts with a Perforce server. For details, see the P4Python chapter of the Perforce scripting manual http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/p4script/03_python.html.

Please see RELNOTES.txt for hints how to build and use P4Python and for a list of changes.

This is a fork of P4Python by Richard Brooksby of Ravenbrook Limited, with the goal of making a command like::

pip install p4python

work smoothly, quickly, and without manual intervention. This should make it much easier for people to develop Python apps that use Perforce.

The P4Python distributed by Perforce Software relies on the user manually fetching the Perforce C/C++ API (P4API). In addition, on some platforms (such as Mac OS X 8) the user must fetch, configure, and build dependent packages such as OpenSSL 1.0.1. All of this hinders development and distribution of Python packages using Perforce.

So far, this fork includes a script p4apiget.py that attempts to fetch a relevant version of the Perforce API from Perforce Software's FTP server. This is called from setup.py if the user didn't specify a directory containing the API.

Open issues:

1. p4apiget.py may not guess the right place to get P4API on all supported platforms.

2. Nothing has been done to fetch libraries that P4API depends on, such as OpenSSL 1.0.1.