[TIP] [tox] how to specify which "extras" to install when testing my package

[Ronny Pfannschmidt]

On 12/13/2011 08:34 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
> On 13/12/2011 07:20, holger krekel wrote:
>>> In order to run the tests, I need to install with a setuptools
>>> "extras" requirements such as:
>>>
>>> easy_install testfixtures[test]
>>>
>>> How do I do that with Tox?
>>
>> As a hack you could try to list this install command in
>> a "commands" section.
> 
> The hack I was going to try was specifying "testfixtures[test]" in the
> deps section. Would that work?

no, pip doesn't support them, and there are no plans to support them,
since distutils2/packaging will not have extra requirements at all

> 
>> A more proper fix is to introduce
>> the customization of install commands, see also the other
>> related recent TIP thread started by Andrew Dalke.
> 
> *nods* Are the changes discussed there likely to happen soon?
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 


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