[TIP] coverage.py with Py2 and Py3

[Sean Robinson]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
<arfrever.fta at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011-04-09 16:39:40 Sean Robinson napisał(a):
>>   How can I install coverage.py for use in both Py2 and Py3?  I
>> installed coverage.py for Py2, but it looks like installing it in Py3,
>> also, will overwrite the script launcher to use Py3.  Is there a way
>> to use coverage.py in both, serially?
>
> In Gentoo, we are automatically renaming target scripts to e.g. /usr/bin/coverage-2.7 and
> /usr/bin/coverage-3.2 and generating a wrapper script /usr/bin/coverage, which executes
> a target script for active version of Python (/usr/bin/python). Users can directly call
> coverage-2.7 or coverage-3.2 without changing active version of Python.
>

  This is similar to what I ended up doing.  I wrote a SlackBuild
which builds a Python version specific Slackware package for coverage
with custom launcher scripts.  This gives me a coverage-py2.6-3.4.tgz
and coverage-py3.1-3.4.tgz.  This should make upgrading Python or
coverage easier for me while allowing me to run test coverage under
both Python interpreters.

  I like the Gentoo idea of a generic wrapper script, I'll have to
steal that to include in my SlackBuild. 8-)

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