Is it worth putting some version of this in DEVELOPERS.md? --Rafael
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Ken Giusti <[email protected]> wrote: > > Devs, > > As you probably know, I've pushed changes to the proton python bindings > that make proton compatible with python3. > > Since then, I've hit bugs in the python3 stuff that could've been caught > by running the above unit test on a linux system that has python3 installed. > > This test currently only runs on linux, and requires both python3 and > extra python tools be installed in order to run it. I suspect most devs > don't have these tools installed by default. If the tools are not > available - or are not current - ctest will skip running these tests. > > Most current linux distros - I'm running Fedora 21 btw - support > installing both python2.x and python3.x in parallel. Most default to just > having python 2.x installed - you usually have to install python3 manually. > > Once you have python3 installed, you will also need to have an up-to-date > version of the 'tox' and 'virtualenv' tools installed. > > For example, on my F21 box: "sudo yum install python-tox > python-virtualenv" does the trick. > > Note: the unit tests require version 1.7+ of python-tox. If that isn't > available to you, you can use 'python-pip' to either overwrite the > installed version of tox with a newer one, or install a local copy of tox > in your home directory: > > $ sudo pip install -U tox # this overwrites > or > $ pip install --user -U tox # will put tox in ~/.local - you'll have to > update your PATH/PYTHONPATH to look there > > Once all that is done, a simple 'make test' should run the python-tox-test. > > > Doing all this is optional, and will increase the time it takes to run the > unit tests, but it prevent inadvertent regressions to the python3 support. > And it will greatly appreciated by yours truly! > > thanks all, > > -K >
