advice for running a development copy of Kupfer

[Paul Bissex <paul bissex net>]

Hi all,

I switched my work machine from OS X to Ubuntu in July, I've been using Kupfer for a month or so now (after 
long experience with Launchbar on OS X and a month with Gnome Do). 

I'm an experienced Python developer and want to try customizing/enhancing Kupfer.

My question is a practical one: what's a good way to set this up on my machine? I'd like to be running my 
fork live, so that I can see how my changes work in real use and have a reasonably tight code/try/fix cycle.

Any advice? Pointers to general guides are OK, too, since I have no Linux app development experience.

Thanks,

Paul

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