os-ken/README.rst
YAMAMOTO Takashi f39e95043c requirements: Drop some optional requirements
Move some non pure python requirements (namely lxml and paramiko)
from pip-requires to test-requires.  Document it in README.rst.

Motivations:

- Make this pip-installable with pypy
- Less distribution package requirements (deb/rpm/etc) in case
  a user do not actually need the functionality

Note: while paramiko itself is pure python, it requires pycrypto.
Note: msgpack has pure python fallback implementation.

Separating ryu into smaller packages would be a better alternative.
However, it would involve a lot more work than this workaround.

Signed-off-by: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2015-03-17 12:20:25 +09:00

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What's Ryu
==========
Ryu is a component-based software defined networking framework.
Ryu provides software components with well defined API that make it
easy for developers to create new network management and control
applications. Ryu supports various protocols for managing network
devices, such as OpenFlow, Netconf, OF-config, etc. About OpenFlow,
Ryu supports fully 1.0, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and Nicira Extensions.
All of the code is freely available under the Apache 2.0 license. Ryu
is fully written in Python.
Quick Start
===========
Installing Ryu is quite easy::
% pip install ryu
If you prefer to install Ryu from the source code::
% git clone git://github.com/osrg/ryu.git
% cd ryu; python ./setup.py install
If you want to use Ryu with `OpenStack <http://openstack.org/>`_,
please refer `networking-ofagent project <https://github.com/stackforge/networking-ofagent>`_.
If you want to write your Ryu application, have a look at
`Writing ryu application <http://ryu.readthedocs.org/en/latest/writing_ryu_app.html>`_ document.
After writing your application, just type::
% ryu-manager yourapp.py
Optional Requirements
=====================
Some functionalities of ryu requires extra packages:
- OF-Config requires lxml
- NETCONF requires paramiko
- BGP speaker (net_cntl) requires paramiko
If you want to use the functionalities, please install requirements::
% pip install lxml
% pip install paramiko
Support
=======
Ryu Official site is `<http://osrg.github.io/ryu/>`_.
If you have any
questions, suggestions, and patches, the mailing list is available at
`ryu-devel ML
<https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ryu-devel>`_.
`The ML archive at Gmane <http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.network.ryu.devel>`_
is also available.