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diff --git a/doc/drafts/extend-envs-and-packagebuilds.md b/doc/drafts/extend-envs-and-packagebuilds.md index d7a6d36..f98649d 100644 --- a/doc/drafts/extend-envs-and-packagebuilds.md +++ b/doc/drafts/extend-envs-and-packagebuilds.md @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ # Extension of environment handling and building packages +Issue reference: #338 + *Notes from a discussion at the pytest sprint 2016* Goal: drive building of packages and the environments needed to test them, exercising the tests and report the results for more than just virtualenvs and python virtualenvs @@ -64,3 +66,19 @@ one to one relationship from environment to directory * Floris: metadata driven. Package has metadata to the env with what env it is compatible * Holger: configuration driven. explicitly configuring which packages should be used (default sdist to be used, overridable by concrete env) * Ronny: "package definitions" (this package, this setup command) + matching definitions (matching packages (with wildcards) for environments) + +### Feature - builddef + +This feature shall allow to specify how to build an artifact in a specific build definition (builddef). + +Currently tox uses the current python interpreter to build the artifact (python package) and thus +does not allow to freely choose the interpreter to build with. +This means that as of now build environment and test environment are different by design. + +Support for different build definitions is implemented by individual tox plugins. +This would result in a collection of plugins supporting different build definitions (e.g. conda, pyenv, docker, rpm) + +Default behavior: + +To keep backwards-compatibility, a python package is built with the python interpreter tox is executed with, +using sdist. This does not require any builddef specification in tox.ini. |