[Python-Dev] easy_install ? (original) (raw)

Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Tue Feb 24 22:24:24 CET 2015

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 > "testsrequire=" and run "python setup.py test", the requirements get > installed using setuptools' easyinstall 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 testsrequire=['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?

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