From 858a6dc27e9d58826f0e1c26e89b9accde3e8007 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kovid Goyal Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 08:59:55 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Document KITTY_DEVELOP_FROM --- docs/build.rst | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/build.rst b/docs/build.rst index 0f9ef7674..9a3c4c3b1 100644 --- a/docs/build.rst +++ b/docs/build.rst @@ -6,9 +6,17 @@ Building kitty from source :target: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/actions?query=workflow%3ACI -|kitty| is designed to run from source, for easy hackability. Make sure +|kitty| is designed to run from source, for easy hack-ability. Make sure the following dependencies are installed first. + +.. note:: + If you are making changes only to the python parts of kitty, there is no need to + build kitty at all, instead, assuming you have installed the official kitty + binaries, you can simply set the KITTY_DEVELOP_FROM enviroment variable to + point to the directory into which you have checked out the kitty source + code. kitty will then load its python code from there. + Dependencies ----------------