On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Ionel Cristian Mărieș <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. > > > Hmmmm ... you're right. But making Tox not use virtualenvs is not > impossible - much alike to how Detox is working, we could have a "Tax" > (just made that up) that just skips making any virtualenv. It's a matter of > making two subclasses and a console_scripts entrypoint (I think). I think > it's a good name: ``use Tax instead of Tox if you wanna "tax" your global > site-packages`` :-) > Just for kicks, I verified this, it's not hard at all: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tax Barry may want to look at it, in case he has too many tox.ini files to copy-paste from :-) Thanks, -- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro
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