[Python-Dev] easy_install ?

[Daniel Holth]

That might mostly do what you want, since tox could install any
additional test requirements based on its configuration.

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Alexander Belopolsky
<alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Is there a recommended way to invoke pip from setup.py?  When I specify
>> > "tests_require=" and run "python setup.py test", the requirements get
>> > installed using setuptools' easy_install function.
>>
>> The solution is to not do that. A substitute is to specify your test
>> requirements in a [test] extra and install them with pip or to run
>> tests with tox. This gives control of the installer back to the user
>> instead of the setup.py author.
>
>
> Isn't this a chicken and egg problem?  I currently have
>
> tests_require=['tox'],
>
> and this is exactly what tox recommends:
>
> https://testrun.org/tox/latest/example/basic.html#integration-with-setuptools-distribute-test-commands
>
>
> Note that my CI box is a CentOS 6.5 with Python 2.6.6, setuptools 0.6.  This
> is still a very common server configuration.  What is the recommended way to
> bootstrap tox in such environment?
>