+rmr-python
+==========
+
+Summary, Limitations
+====================
+
+This is a CTYPES wrapper around the C rmr library. It requires you have
+rmr installed.
+
+That is, it is not a native re-implementation of the rmr library. This
+seems to come with pros and cons. On the positive side, wrapping the
+library was much less work; we only need to wrap the function
+signatures. Keeping up with the rmr spec is thus also less work, as when
+new functions are added into the C lib, we only need to again wrap the
+function signatures.
+
+The downside is this seems to be Linux only currently. This wrapper
+immediately SIGABRT’s on Mac, and no one yet seems to know why. The
+other downside is that there are currently some functionality that needs
+to be “exported” from the C library for this to be fully operational.
+For example, CTYPES does not have access to C header files, and
+important constants are defined in the C header files.
+
+Possibly evaluate whether we could natively reimplement the API with the nano nng python
+bindings: https://pypi.org/project/pynng/
+
+Not Yet Implemented
+-------------------
+
+At the time of this writing (Aug 13 2019) The following C functions
+are not yet implemented in this library (do we need them?):
+
+::
+
+ 1. `extern void rmr_free_msg`
+ 2. `extern rmr_mbuf_t* rmr_mtosend_msg`
+ 3. `extern rmr_mbuf_t* rmr_call` (this has some problems AFAIU from Scott)
+ 4. `extern rmr_mbuf_t* rmr_rcv_specific`
+ 5. `extern int rmr_get_rcvfd`
+
+Unit Testing
+============
+
+::
+
+ tox
+ open htmlcov/index.html
+
+Installation
+============
+
+Prequisites
+-----------
+
+If rmr is *not* compiled on your system, see the below instructions for
+downloading and compiling rmr. This library expects that the rmr .so
+files are compiled and available.
+
+From PyPi
+---------
+
+::
+
+ pip install rmr==X.Y.Z
+
+From Source
+-----------
+
+::
+
+ git clone "https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/ric-plt/lib/rmr"
+ cd rmr/src/bindings/rmr-python/
+ pip install .
+
+Examples
+========
+
+See the ``examples`` directory.
+
+Compiling rmr (if not already done on your system)
+==================================================
+
+(Note, you may or may not need sudo in your final command, depending on
+permissions to ``/usr/local``. The pack externals option to CMake is
+needed only if the NNG libary is not already installed on the system,
+and you do not wish to manually install it.)
+
+::
+
+ git clone https://gerrit.oran-osc.org/r/ric-plt/lib/rmr
+ cd rmr
+ mkdir .build; cd .build; cmake .. -DPACK_EXTERNALS=1; sudo make install