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

[Carl Meyer]

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Hi Chris & holger,

On 12/13/2011 02:09 AM, holger krekel wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 07:34 +0000, 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?
> 
> These days tox unconditionally uses "pip" to install packages.
> Unless pip supports this formatting it will not work.

As of a few days ago pip does support extras syntax directly, in the
development branch, thanks to Matt Maker:
https://github.com/pypa/pip/commit/ef9ee9a3a1a73bb09ff29dd3c7c91536a26916b9

Carl
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