Improve developer documentation.

I cloned, followed the todo and had failures as no certifi or chardet.

Fixed up so easy to get started.

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f735215d7bed85e76ceb376f6b8701417c742d8f..a0b1487d39341844f4049c5bf8ecdb7ad3f87060 100644 (file)
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ docs/_build
 requests.egg-info/
 *.pyc
 *.swp
+env/

diff --git a/docs/dev/todo.rst b/docs/dev/todo.rst
index 0e7836db1c23062596e1690dcab11dc47f3d2789..7aa2cae8f5bc00bf43f1ebf3fe8718136d5314f3 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/dev/todo.rst
+++ b/docs/dev/todo.rst
@@ -15,10 +15,15 @@ Requests is under active development, and contributions are more than welcome!
 Development dependencies
 ------------------------
 
-You'll need to install ``gunicorn`` and ``httpbin`` in order to run requests' test suite::
+You'll need to install ``gunicorn`` and ``httpbin`` and various other dependencies in
+order to run requests' test suite::
 
-    $ pip install -r requirements.txt
+    $ virtualenv env
+    $ . env/bin/activate
+    $ make
+    $ make test
 
+The ``Makefile`` has various useful targets for testing.
 
 What Needs to be Done
 ---------------------