[TIP] tox config format

[Michael Foord]

On 17/12/2010 17:28, Alex Gaynor wrote:
> Fellow Testers,
>
> I spent a bit of time this morning setting up tox for one of my 
> projects, django-taggit (https://github.com/alex/django-taggit).  It's 
> awesome, in addition to testing with multiples pythons it's easy to 
> test multiple versions of Django by creating custom testenvs and 
> altering the deps.  However, it's rather verbose: most of the items: 
> https://github.com/alex/django-taggit/blob/master/tox.ini are 
> copy-pastes of one another.  I'm wondering whether there isn't 
> something that could be done to simplify this, some way to take the 
> set of base envs (py25, py26, etc.) and parameterize them along some 
> axis, such as deps.  I don't have a specific syntax proposal, but I'm 
> curious if anyone else does.
>

+1

Setting up tox is not hard, so props to Holger for that, but when you 
are configuring multiple interpreters there is a lot of repetition.

All the best,

Michael Foord

> Alex
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