[TIP] [tox] Passing options to setup.py?

[holger krekel]

hi Chris,

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 23:45 +0000, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to build and test NumPy with Tox. On linux, this works fine (just "tox" 
> with a standard tox.ini). However, on my Windows machine I need to pass "--
> compiler=mingw32" to NumPy's setup.py. Sorry if I'm being stupid, but I just 
> couldn't figure out how to do this! Any ideas?

Can you file an issue for allowing options/customization of sdist-packaging
in a platform specific way? See https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/tox/issues

best,
holger