[TIP] Testing a binary distribution with Tox

[holger krekel]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 20:09 -0400, André Caron wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> Thanks for replying!
> 
> Maybe I' just still new to this thing, but isn't "usedevelop=False" the
> default configuration?  I normally don't use the "usedevelop" nor the
> "--develop" CLI option, so I guess I'm already doing this.
> 
> Also, it looks like Tox uses "python setup.py sdist" to generate my
> package.  I would like for it to test -- in addition to "sdist" -- using
> "python setup.py bdist_wheel" to make sure the binary distribution is good
> to go as well.

right now, the only way to get this is to call "bdist_wheel" yourself
and then use the "--installpkg PATH_TO_WHEEL" option.  The latter
will skip the sdist packaging.

There is some interest and talk to make the packaging step configurable
but no proposed docs or PR yet.

holger

> Thanks,
> 
> André
> 
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> > --
> > Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
> > Distinguished Technologist
> > HP Converged Cloud
> >

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