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title: BMGeoIP Development
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Use a separate development MariaDB database and settings file.

```sh
python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
.venv/bin/python -B -m unittest discover -s tests -v
.venv/bin/python -B bmgeoip-server.py --host 127.0.0.1 \
  --state-dir /tmp/bmgeoip-dev --database-env /tmp/bmgeoip-dev.env \
  --zmq-endpoint tcp://127.0.0.1:54301

MariaDB tests require BMGEOIP_TEST_DATABASE_ENV; otherwise they are skipped.

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