[TIP] Issue with larger project with subprojects; how to deal with dependencies?

[Joe Smith]

Not entirely helpful (as it sidesteps your question), but if you use the
pants build tool <http://pantsbuild.github.io/>, it's very well-suited
toward a large monorepo of code. You can specify a suite of python_tests
<http://pantsbuild.github.io/build_dictionary.html#python_tests>, which
will run all the targets that are included as dependencies.

An example is Apache Aurora <http://github.com/apache/incubator-aurora>,
the cluster scheduler used at Twitter. At the top of the repo, you can run
all the tests via:

./pants ./src/test/python:all

You probably don't want to move away from tox, but I figured I'd point out
an alternative if that sounds interesting
<http://pantsbuild.github.io/python-readme.html>.


On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Jonas Thiem <jonasthiem at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we got an issue with our project which is made of various subprojects,
> all of them in theory usable on their own with their own tox.ini and
> "tox" command, but in practise combined in one large repo and with
> some dependencies between them.
>
> The problem is, many of these subprojects simply won't work with a
> simple "tox" command unless a custom package index is in place, or
> sitepackages=True is set (which we don't want to do) with the
> dependencies installed into the system.
>
> That is unfortunate, since the entire point of just being able to type
> "tox" is that it just works for everyone for simple testing.
>
> **More details**:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24411276/how-to-specify-another-tox-project-folder-as-a-dependency-for-a-tox-project
>
> I would be happy for some responses and discussions and possibly some
> final advise on what to do, or maybe even an update to tox to allow
> relative path dependency fetches from other tox.ini-equipped folders.
> (see Stackoverflow link for details on why we think this would be a
> useful solution)
>
> Regards,
> Jonas Thiem
>
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