[TIP] Converting a project from setup.py test to py.test

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Tue Jul 29 07:31:55 PDT 2014


On 29 July 2014 12:35, holger krekel <holger at merlinux.eu> wrote:
> It's not configparser's fault, actually.  It's rather that when
> tox was incepted we weren't sure how the dependency items would
> evolve (and maybe contain a "comma" or space) and wanted to
> play it safe.
>
> In fact, with the "conditional" syntax we are getting for tox-1.8
> it's good that deps are one per line:

Ah, yes, thanks. With that explanation it not only stops looking
weird, it actually makes perfect sense. I guess the only real problem
is that the syntax is not clearly documented anywhere (that I could
find). It might be worth making it explicit somewhere.

Paul



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