[TIP] Tox and setup.py enforcing python version

[Carl Meyer]

On 06/03/2015 12:01 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Jun 03, 2015, at 08:12 AM, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> 
>> Note only the setup.py has to be syntax-compatible!
> 
> Why should that matter?  I'm asking philosophically, since a project's
> setup.py *should* be independent of whatever Python the tox application is
> invoked with.

I believe that tox builds the sdist of your project in the host Python,
not inside each tox env.

Carl

>> Note neither Debian nor Ubuntu have a package for a python3 tox:
> 
> Correct.  We don't package tox as a library so we don't have Python 2 and 3
> versions of it.  It's a leaf application so the shebang *should* be
> independent of whatever Python versions it supports.  We shebang /usr/bin/tox
> to Python 3.

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