[TIP] tox and setup.py

[Michael Foord]

On 24/06/2011 17:39, Jorge Cardona wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Michael Foord<michael at voidspace.org.uk>  wrote:
>> On 24/06/2011 03:58, Jorge Cardona wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have set a tox.ini with a setup.py which describe a python package
>>> and I tested it with tox, the first step is to create a sdist in zip
>>> format of the package, but I need to change the version to refresh the
>>> zip every time I want to test the code, there is a way to test it
>>> without change the package version every time?
>>>
>> By default tox will recreate the sdist, for the main package under test,
>> every time. Are you sure this isn't happening, or is this particular
>> setup.py for a dependency rather than the main package?
>>
> The setup.py is for the main package. But I just check and the zip
> file is correctly refresh by setup.py sdist, but tox doesn't refresh
> the installation, I know there is a way to force the refresh of the
> environment, but that takes so much time and every little change that
> I want to test would be pretty long.

Yeah, you don't need to refresh the environment just to test the current 
version of your package under test.

Can you paste your tox.ini to the list?

Michael

> Check the installation logs after a change, first without change the version:
>
> user at machone:<path>$ cat .tox/local/log/22.log
> <path>/.tox/local/log$ ../bin/pip install
> --download-cache=<path>/.tox/_download ../../dist/<package>-1.0.4.zip
>> 22.log
> Unpacking<path>/.tox/dist/<package>-1.0.4.zip
>    Running setup.py egg_info for package from
> file:///<path>/.tox/dist/<package>1.0.4.zip
> Cleaning up...
>
> And after the version change:
>
> user at machone:<path>$ cat .tox/local/log/23.log
> <path>/.tox/local/log$ ../bin/pip install
> --download-cache=<path>/.tox/_download ../../dist/<package>-1.0.5.zip
>> 23.log
> Unpacking<path>/.tox/dist/<package>-1.0.5.zip
>    Running setup.py egg_info for package from
> file://<path>/.tox/dist/<package>-1.0.5.zip
> Installing collected packages:<package>
>    Found existing installation:<package>  1.0.4
>      Uninstalling<package>:
>        Successfully uninstalled<package>
>    Running setup.py install for<package>
> Successfully installed<package>
> Cleaning up...
>
> Look that the way in which pip is called doesn't update the package,
> I'm using tox 1.0, there is a way to add a single -U to that command?
>
>> (I use tox for mock and run tests in between minor edits without bumping the
>> version number. It builds a fresh sdist and installs it into the
>> virtualenvironments every time.)
>>
> Mmm, that's what I want to do. :(
>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>
>> --
>> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/
>>
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>>
>>
>
>


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