[TIP] Testing a binary distribution with Tox

[Robert Collins]

On 19 June 2015 at 11:31, André Caron <andre.l.caron at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using Tox, which installs the package in the test environments using
> sdist (unless running with --develop option).  This is very nice, but it's
> happened that I end up with deployment errors with binary distributions.
>
> I've been wondering how to automate the testing of my package's binary
> distribtion to make sure it gives the same result as the source distribution
> -- at the very least on the host system -- without actually running the
> package through PyPI.
>
> What are your recipes for doing this?

In tox.ini

usedevelop = False

will change this to doing setup.py install rather than develop. That
should be enough to flush out many more issues.

-Rob
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Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
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