[TIP] tox config format

[holger krekel]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 18:29 -0700, Chris Rose wrote:
> Honestly, putting the configuration in Python would be just fantastic.
> Really. So many problems solved.
> 
> Holger, would you be amenable to something that allowed tox to take a
> python module as configuration?

python based configs introduce API and versioning questions and 
risk to make things less readable.

When i had custom needs i just wrote a script to generate a tox.ini 
file.  From my general hacking experience, having configs spelled out 
makes things easier to debug and understand for newcomers.

Anyway, I am not totally opposed to python-configs but rather skeptical.  
If somebody offers a patch and/or documentation (i.e. spelling out some
hyptothetical examples) i'll review it and see about including or
helping implementing it.

cheers,
holger
 
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Carl Meyer <carl at oddbird.net> wrote:
> > Hi Holger,
> >
> > You asked for additional examples of repetitive tox.ini files; here's
> > mine: https://github.com/carljm/django-adminfiles/blob/master/tox.ini
> >
> > It's pretty similar to Alex', just more so. The one additional factor
> > you'll see in it is the need to define a base set of dependencies and
> > then add to them in a specific env only (e.g. for pysqlite in py2.4)
> > without repeating the entire set.
> >
> > (This tox.ini works great, of course, it's just repetitive. Thanks for
> > such a nice tool!)
> >
> > Carl
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > testing-in-python mailing list
> > testing-in-python at lists.idyll.org
> > http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/testing-in-python
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Chris R.
> ======
> Not to be taken literally, internally, or seriously.
> Twitter: http://twitter.com/offby1
> 

--