[TIP] running unittests on multiple OS, including non-Posix

[Randy Syring]

Why not Travis?  It can run stuff on Windows, I used to test python 
packages on Windows that way.

*Randy Syring*
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On 02/28/2014 03:56 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to run my unittests (--> nose) on multiple platforms. I 
> also would like to test different python versions and implementations 
> on each platform (--> tox [2]). These platforms also include Windows, 
> so Travis CI or Docker is not an option, AFAIK. I was thinking about 
> using Vagrant [3] to fire up VirtualBox [4] VMs for each 
> platform-to-be-tested, then either (a) fire up nose or tox through SSH 
> or (b) (the easy way) prepare each VM such that nose/tox is fired up 
> right when the OS starts (ie., edit .bashrc, autoexit.bat or whatever 
> it is called for the OS at hand). But this all feels like reinventing 
> the wheel. Can you recommend a package or strategy to use? Beautiful 
> is better than ugly, although practicality beats purity. In other 
> words: it would nice if it is The Right Way, but I am a lazy bastard 
> so I am also open for quick-and-dirty approaches ;-)
>
> [1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/nose/
> [2] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tox
> [3] http://www.vagrantbox.es/
> [4] https://www.virtualbox.org/
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Albert-Jan
>
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