On October 7, 2015 at 7:58:55 AM, Ionel Cristian Mărieș ([email protected]) wrote: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Thomas Güttler > > wrote: > > Why not use `setup.py test`? > > > > Because: > > 1. There's Tox, which does exactly that, and more. It's maintained. It > gets features.
tox and setup.py test are not really equivalent. There’s no way (to my knowledge) to test the item outside of a virtual environment. This is important for downstreams who want to test that the package build and the tests successfully are executed in their environment, not within some virtual environment. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
