From 76dcb5a797d799cc04df8abaa981fdf9878ec831 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Gleitze Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 22:58:45 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Java is no longer required to run tests --- docs/development/local-development.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/development/local-development.md b/docs/development/local-development.md index 561bca671568f7..b673e901e44fa9 100644 --- a/docs/development/local-development.md +++ b/docs/development/local-development.md @@ -22,12 +22,12 @@ For local development some dependencies are required: - yarn `^1.17.0` - c++ compiler - python `^2.7` with `mock` library -- java between `8` and `12` (or set env `SKIP_JAVA_TESTS` to `true`) +- java between `8` and `12` Python 2.7 is required in development in order to support installing with `node-gyp`, which does not yet support Python 3. `mock` is used by Renovate in production and is now part of the Python standard library, but only from 3.3 onwards. Java is required to execute Gradle in tests. -You can skip these tests locally by setting the environment variable `SKIP_JAVA_TESTS` to `true`. +If you don’t have Java installed, the respective tests will be skipped. _Linux_