[TIP] Using tox with wine

[holger krekel]

Hi Ronny, Marius,

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 13:34 +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
> Hi Marius,
> 
> currently there is no support for different installers.

> There is a vague plan for a upcoming re-factoring
> that also allows more kinds of installers.

I think in this case we just need a way to define pip/virtualenv
locations/commands, the options/way of working is not really
different between wine and not wine IIUC.

> But its not clear when implementation of that will start.

Defining the location is not as hard as allowing different installers,
however. Still work.

best,
holger

> 
> Making tox wine-aware could be a neat addition
> to its general capabilities - could you report
> a feature request on the bts?
> 
> best regards,
> Ronny Pfannschmidt
> 
> On 09/06/2012 12:35 PM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> >Sometimes I find myself debugging cross-platform issues by running my
> >tests under Wine on a Linux box.  This works:
> >
> >   wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.3/python-2.7.3.msi
> >   wine start python-2.7.3.msi
> >     # the usual next next next finish make-work
> >   ~/.wine/drive_c/Python27/python.exe /usr/share/pyshared/virtualenv.py wenv
> >   wenv/Scripts/pip.exe install nose # etc.
> >   wenv/Scripts/python.exe setup.py develop
> >   wenv/Scripts/nosetests.exe
> >
> >I would like to teach tox to do all this for me.  Any hints/ideas?
> >
> >   [testenv:wine]
> >   basepython = {env:HOME}/.wine/drive_c/Python27/python.exe
> >
> >_almost_ works: the virtualenv is created, and it contains working
> >Scripts/pip.exe and Scripts/python.exe.  But then tox tries to install
> >stuff using /usr/bin/pip instead of .tox/wine/Scripts/pip.exe and, of
> >course, fails.
> >
> >Can I somehow tell tox to use a different pip command to install stuff?
> >
> >Marius Gedminas
> >
> >
> >
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