[execnet-dev] adding env option to xspec

[holger krekel]

Hi Jakub, 

not sure it makes sense to add this to execnet, maybe better
to xdist code?  Things is it's easy to set environment variables 
when initializing gateways yourself. Just when using pytest-xdist 
you cannot easily do this because that API level is not exposed. 
So xdist could grow a configuration option to interpret 
some additional xspec settings. 

I suggest to use 

    popen//env:NAME=value 

as syntax.   That being said i am not totally opposed to adding 
it directly to execnet.  Maybe other people here on the list also
have comments ... 

best,
holger

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 13:30 +0100, Jakub Gustak wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I need to specify some ENV variable when running a sub-process (this
> case for xdist). AFAIK there is no support for such feature.
> 
> I do a workaround by popen//python=./python_with_env where
> ./python_with_env does specify required ENV.
> 
> It would be nice to have xspec env option (e.g. popen//env='VAR1=value
> VAR2=value' ).
> 
> I can fry up a patch for this functionality if you consider it a
> feature worth inclusion.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jakub Gustak
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