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authorNed Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>2012-07-21 23:08:43 -0400
committerNed Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>2012-07-21 23:08:43 -0400
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Fix some of the howto, and note the new prominence of tox.
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- Ask Christophe Zwerschke (cito@online.de) to build win64 kits.
-* Making virtualenvs on Windows
-
-- cd c:\vpy\coverage
-- \py32\xx\python ..\virtualenv.py xx
-- copy ..\distutils.cfg xx\Lib\distutils
-- cd nose_source_directory_someplace
-- \vpy\coverage\xx\Scripts\python.exe setup.py install
-
-
* Building
- Install fixtar on any Windows Python used to make source kits: http://bitbucket.org/ned/fixtar
@@ -74,21 +65,12 @@
* Testing
-(automate these someday)
-
-- On Py 2.x: need setuptools installed
-- On Py 3.x: need Distribute installed
-- Need nose installed
-- Need to have coverage dev-installed
-- In each Python installation to be used, create a "coverage_test_egg.pth"
- containing::
-
- c:\ned\coverage\trunk\test\eggsrc\dist\covtestegg1-0.0.0-py2.5.egg
-
- (or equivalent).
+- Testing of Python code is handled by tox.
+ - Create a virtualenv
+ - install tox into it
+ - activate the virtualenv
+ - $ tox
- These go in c:\python26\lib\site-packages or
- /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages, for example.
- For complete coverage testing, in each Python installation, create a
"zzz_coverage_process_start.pth" containing::