Using pre-commit in GStreamer
Recently, GStreamer development story integrated the usage of
pre-commit.
pre-commit is a Git hook script that chain different
linters, checkers, validators, formatters, etc., that are executed at git commit. This script is in Python. And there’s other GStreamer utility in
Python: hotdoc
The challenge is that Debian doesn’t allow to install Python packages through
pip, they have to be installed as Debian packages or inside virtual
environments, such as venv.
So, instead of activating a virtual environment when I work in GStreamer, let’s just use direnv to activate it automatically.
Here’s a screencast of what I did to setup a Python virtual environment, within
direnv, and installing pre-commit, hotdoc and gst-indent-1.0.
UPDATE: Tim told me that wit pipx we can do
the same without the venv hassle.
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