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diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
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--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ Version 3.5.3b1
- Try to do a better job of the impossible task of detecting when we can't
build the C extension, fixing `issue 183`_.
+- Testing is now done with tox.
+
.. _issue 179: https://bitbucket.org/ned/coveragepy/issue/179/htmlreporter-fails-when-source-file-is
.. _issue 183: https://bitbucket.org/ned/coveragepy/issue/183/install-fails-for-python-23
diff --git a/howto.txt b/howto.txt
index 90a84dfb..e3433c47 100644
--- a/howto.txt
+++ b/howto.txt
@@ -56,15 +56,6 @@
- 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::