[TIP] tox config format

[Kumar McMillan]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:47 AM, holger krekel <holger at merlinux.eu> wrote:
>    [testenv]
>    commands = python setup.py test
>    deps = django==1.2.3
>
>    [testenv:alpha1]
>    deps = http://www.djangoproject.com/download/1.3-alpha-1/tarball/

+1
I like this a lot!


fwiw, I think this kind of problem highlights where ini files fall
short and where Python configuration starts to have advantages.
However, as long as the custom ini syntax has extensive documentation
then I think it will be ok.  When the config file is in Python, a
developer knows what to do intuitively.  When it's a custom ini
syntax, she has to look it up in the docs.

As a point of reference, I believe Paste's custom ini syntax [1]
solves this problem like:

[testenv]
commands = python setup.py test
deps = django==1.2.3

[something_else]
inherits = testenv
deps = http://www.djangoproject.com/download/1.3-alpha-1/tarball/

...but I like testenv:something_else better because it seems more
logical at a glance.

[1] Or am I thinking of use=other ? something like that.
http://pythonpaste.org/deploy/#config-uris

>
>    [testenv:docs]
>    changedir = docs
>    deps =
>        sphinx
>    commands =
>        sphinx-build -W -b html -d {envtmpdir}/doctrees . {envtmpdir}/html
>        sphinx-build -W -b linkcheck -d {envtmpdir}/doctrees . {envtmpdir}/linkcheck
>
> makes sense to you?
>
> cheers,
> holger
>
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