[TIP] [tox] how to test svn trunk / git master for required libraries?

[Maru Newby]

Hi Chris,


On 2012-03-06, at 8:36 PM, Chris Withers wrote:

> Yes, it does. What if they're coming from git instead of svn?



Easy as pie: git+[xyz url]#egg=xyz

The syntax is very close to what pip uses to specify 'editable' packages:

www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/requirements.html

The difference is that specifying editable packages in tox.ini requires that the '-e' or '--editable' flag not be included, or the necessary '#egg=xyz' suffix will be interpreted as a comment and be ignored.  This is a bit inconsistent, since requirements files in tox.ini are required to be prefixed by the pip '-r' flag.

Cheers,


Maru