Installation
There are two ways to obtain the xaitk-saliency package. The simplest is to install via the pip command. Alternatively, the source tree can be acquired and be locally developed using Poetry (installation and usage).
From pip
pip install xaitk-saliency
This method will install all of the same functionality as when installing from source.
If you have an existing installation and would like to upgrade your version,
provide the -U
/--upgrade
option.
From Source
The following assumes Poetry is already installed.
Quick Start
cd /where/things/should/go/
git clone https://github.com/XAITK/xaitk-saliency.git ./
poetry install
poetry run pytest
cd docs
poetry run make html
Installing Python Dependencies
This project uses Poetry for dependency management, environment consistency,
package building, version management, and publishing to PYPI.
Dependencies are abstractly defined in the pyproject.toml
file, as
well as specifically pinned versions in the poetry.lock
file, both
of which can be found in the root of the source tree.
The following installs both installation and development dependencies as
specified in the pyproject.toml
file, with versions specified
(including for transitive dependencies) in the poetry.lock
file:
poetry install
Building the Documentation
The documentation for xaitk-saliency is maintained as a collection of
reStructuredText documents in the docs/
folder of the project.
The Sphinx documentation tool can process this documentation
into a variety of formats, the most common of which is HTML.
Within the docs/
directory is a Unix Makefile
(for Windows
systems, a make.bat
file with similar capabilities exists).
This Makefile
takes care of the work required to run Sphinx
to convert the raw documentation to an attractive output format.
For example, as shown in the Quick Start section (above), calling make html
will generate
HTML format documentation rooted at docs/_build/html/index.html
.
Calling the command make help
here will show the other documentation
formats that may be available (although be aware that some of them require
additional dependencies such as TeX or LaTeX).
Live Preview
While writing documentation in a markup format such as reStructuredText, it
is very helpful to preview the formatted version of the text.
While it is possible to simply run the make html
command periodically, a
more seamless workflow of this is available.
Within the docs/
directory is a small Python script called
sphinx_server.py
that can simply be called with:
poetry run python sphinx_server.py
This will run a small process that watches the docs/
folder contents,
as well as the source files in xaitk_saliency/
, for changes.
make html is re-run automatically when changes are detected.
This will serve the resulting HTML files at http://localhost:5500.
Having this URL open in a browser will provide you with an up-to-date
preview of the rendered documentation.