[TIP] tox and setup.py

[Jorge Cardona]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Michael Foord
<michael at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> 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?
>

[testenv:local]
changedir = tests/proj
commands = python manage.py test core
deps =
    django
    nose
    django-nose
    git+git://github.com/jorgeecardona/nosecover3.git
    coverage

(Sorry michael for the duplicated message)

> 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/
>>>
>>> May you do good and not evil
>>> May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others
>>> May you share freely, never taking more than you give.
>>> -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/
>
> May you do good and not evil
> May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others
> May you share freely, never taking more than you give.
> -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html
>
>



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