[TIP] tox-2.0.0: plugin support, platforms, env isolation

Alex Gaynor alex.gaynor at gmail.com
Tue May 12 16:00:02 PDT 2015


yup, argparse gets installed if I pass --no-use-wheel.

Thanks,
Alex

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 6:58 PM, holger krekel <holger at merlinux.eu> wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 18:51 -0400, Alex Gaynor wrote:
> > Hi Holger,
> >
> > First: congrats on shipping 2.0, I'm very excited to explore some of the
> > new features.
> >
> > Second:
> >
> > Did tox drop Python 2.6 support? It started failing on our CI, so far the
> > error I see is that tox imports argparse, but I guess it's setup.py does
> > not depend on it. Can this be fixed?
>
> Hum, that's probably a problem of the wheel format.  Can you try installing
> with "--no-use-wheel" and see if that helps?
>
> holger
>
> > Thanks!
> > Alex
> >
> > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 5:46 PM, holger krekel <holger at merlinux.eu>
> wrote:
> >
> > > tox-2.0: plugins, platform, env isolation
> > > ==========================================
> > >
> > > tox-2.0 was released to pypi, a major new release with *mostly*
> > > backward-compatible enhancements and fixes:
> > >
> > > - experimental support for plugins, see
> > > https://testrun.org/tox/dev/plugins.html
> > >   which includes also a refined internal registration mechanism for new
> > > testenv
> > >   ini options.  You can now ask tox which testenv ini parameters exist
> > >   with ``tox --help-ini``.
> > >
> > > - ENV isolation: only pass through very few environment variables from
> the
> > >   tox invocation to the test environments.  This may break test runs
> that
> > >   previously worked with tox-1.9 -- you need to either use the
> > >   ``setenv`` or ``passenv`` ini variables to set appropriate
> environment
> > >   variables.
> > >
> > > - PLATFORM support: you can set ``platform=REGEX`` in your testenv
> sections
> > >   which lets tox skip the environment if the REGEX does not match
> > > ``sys.platform``.
> > >
> > > - tox now stops execution of test commands if the first of them fails
> > > unless
> > >   you set ``ignore_errors=True``.
> > >
> > > Thanks to Volodymyr Vitvitski, Daniel Hahler, Marc Abramowitz, Anthon
> van
> > > der Neuth and others for contributions.
> > >
> > > More documentation about tox in general:
> > >
> > >     http://tox.testrun.org/
> > >
> > > Installation:
> > >
> > >     pip install -U tox
> > >
> > > code hosting and issue tracking on bitbucket:
> > >
> > >     https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/tox
> > >
> > > What is tox?
> > > ----------------
> > >
> > > tox standardizes and automates tedious test activities driven from a
> > > simple ``tox.ini`` file, including:
> > >
> > > * creation and management of different virtualenv environments
> > >   with different Python interpreters
> > > * packaging and installing your package into each of them
> > > * running your test tool of choice, be it nose, py.test or unittest2 or
> > > other tools such as "sphinx" doc checks
> > > * testing dev packages against each other without needing to upload to
> PyPI
> > >
> > > best,
> > > Holger Krekel, merlinux GmbH
> > >
> > > --
> > > about me:    http://holgerkrekel.net/about-me/
> > > contracting: http://merlinux.eu
> > >
> > > 2.0.0
> > > -----------
> > >
> > > - (new) introduce environment variable isolation:
> > >   tox now only passes the PATH and PIP_INDEX_URL variable from the tox
> > >   invocation environment to the test environment and on Windows
> > >   also ``SYSTEMROOT``, ``PATHEXT``, ``TEMP`` and ``TMP`` whereas
> > >   on unix additionally ``TMPDIR`` is passed.  If you need to pass
> > >   through further environment variables you can use the new ``passenv``
> > > setting,
> > >   a space-separated list of environment variable names.  Each name
> > >   can make use of fnmatch-style glob patterns.  All environment
> > >   variables which exist in the tox-invocation environment will be
> copied
> > >   to the test environment.
> > >
> > > - a new ``--help-ini`` option shows all possible testenv settings and
> > >   their defaults.
> > >
> > > - (new) introduce a way to specify on which platform a testenvironment
> is
> > > to
> > >   execute: the new per-venv "platform" setting allows to specify
> > >   a regular expression which is matched against sys.platform.
> > >   If platform is set and doesn't match the platform spec in the test
> > >   environment the test environment is ignored, no setup or tests are
> > > attempted.
> > >
> > > - (new) add per-venv "ignore_errors" setting, which defaults to False.
> > >    If ``True``, a non-zero exit code from one command will be ignored
> and
> > >    further commands will be executed (which was the default behavior in
> > > tox <
> > >    2.0).  If ``False`` (the default), then a non-zero exit code from
> one
> > > command
> > >    will abort execution of commands for that environment.
> > >
> > > - show and store in json the version dependency information for each
> venv
> > >
> > > - remove the long-deprecated "distribute" option as it has no effect
> these
> > > days.
> > >
> > > - fix issue233: avoid hanging with tox-setuptools integration example.
> > > Thanks simonb.
> > >
> > > - fix issue120: allow substitution for the commands section.  Thanks
> > >   Volodymyr Vitvitski.
> > >
> > > - fix issue235: fix AttributeError with --installpkg.  Thanks
> > >   Volodymyr Vitvitski.
> > >
> > > - tox has now somewhat pep8 clean code, thanks to Volodymyr Vitvitski.
> > >
> > > - fix issue240: allow to specify empty argument list without it being
> > >   rewritten to ".".  Thanks Daniel Hahler.
> > >
> > > - introduce experimental (not much documented yet) plugin system
> > >   based on pytest's externalized "pluggy" system.
> > >   See tox/hookspecs.py for the current hooks.
> > >
> > > - introduce parser.add_testenv_attribute() to register an ini-variable
> > >   for testenv sections.  Can be used from plugins through the
> > >   tox_add_option hook.
> > >
> > > - rename internal files -- tox offers no external API except for the
> > >   experimental plugin hooks, use tox internals at your own risk.
> > >
> > > - DEPRECATE distshare in documentation
> > >
> > >
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