Multiplatform Python Env Setup

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With the purpose of standardizing the Software Development workflow for the classroom, this issue aims to test the repository in different platforms, being the main OS Linux.

• [x] Ubuntu
• [x] Windows

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Windows 11

Using venv is the easier and lighter way of managing environments. For the creation of them, the same command is needed for all platforms:

python -m venv fred-env

For Windows, activating an environment is different for CMD and PowerShell. I personally prefer PowerShell:

PowerShell:

.\fred-env\Scripts\Activate.ps1

CMD:

.\fred-env\Scripts\activate.bat

xArm SDK submodule

The package for connecting and using the xArm6 has been added as a submodule. It is useful for looking at the examples. To clone the submodule from the root I used:

git submodule init
git submodule update --recursive

There are instructions for installing the package from source which I did, however, the library is also available via pip. As pip install is simpler, all the requirements will be freezed into a requirements.txt file.