[TIP] tox-0.9: better CI bootstrapping / custom PyPI index servers

[Kumar McMillan]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 5:26 PM, holger krekel <holger at merlinux.eu> wrote:
>>   I got
>> this error with out-of-the-box pypy 1.4: IOError: [Errno 2] No such
>> file or directory:
>> '/Users/kumar/dev/nose/.tox/pypy14/bin/easy_install'
>
> Seems that pypy and virtualenv do not play well here - i assume you
> use it on OSX.  pypy-1.4 is supposed  to work with virtualenv
> without patches (i changed the web site now). it works on linux for me.
> Does a manual "virtualenv -p path/to/pypy pypy1" work for you?
> (i.e. no distribute, no --no-site-packages etc.)

Running virtualenv --distribute -p path/to/pypy reproduces the same
error.  The distribute bootstrap was silently failing with an error
trying to import plistlib.  I'm not sure why though since plistlib
exists in pypy (this is a mac only lib iirc, probably triggered by
some darwin specific distribute code?)

>
> cheers,
> holger
>
>> -Kumar
>>
>> > This release brings a new zero-install way to
>> > deploy tox and your test suite on Hudson slaves.  Apart from one or
>> > more Python interpreters you do not need anything on the slave side,
>> > see here for details:
>> >
>> >    http://codespeak.net/tox/example/hudson.html#zero-installation-for-slaves
>> >
>> > Moreover, you can now work with multiple PyPI index servers which
>> > is very nice if you (want to) operate your own in-company servers,
>> > see here for details:
>> >
>> >    http://codespeak.net/tox/example/basic.html#using-a-different-default-pypi-url
>> >
>> > Btw, what kind of custom servers are you successfully using?
>> > (tell me on twitter @hpk42 if you like).
>> >
>> > Oh, and for basic info just go to
>> >
>> >    http://codespeak.net/tox
>> >
>> > if that wasn't clear yet.
>> >
>> > have fun,
>> > holger
>> >
>> > Changelog for 0.9
>> > -----------------------
>> >
>> > - added support for working with different and multiple PYPI indexservers.
>> > - fix pip-installation mixups by always unsetting PIP_RESPECT_VIRTUALENV
>> >  (thanks Armin Ronacher)
>> > - issue1: Add a toxbootstrap.py script for tox, thanks to Sridhar Ratnakumar
>> > - new option: -r|--recreate to force recreation of virtualenv
>> > - show logfile content if there is an error (makes CI output
>> >  more readable)
>> > - depend on py>=1.4.0 which does not contain or install the py.test
>> >  anymore which is now a separate distribution "pytest".
>> >
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