ctox 0.1.1

tox but with conda

tox but with conda.

This is a really rough hack to replicate tox using conda, you’ll be much better off using tox (tox is professionally supported whilst ctox isn’t supported). In the long-term a much better solution is to add conda support to tox…

Currently:

• conda envs and dependancies are cached (naively)

• some tox substitutions (lots of missing features)

• no cli options

• no parallel support (see above)

• bugs (probably lots)

However, the neat thing is that it makes tox-like testing on a machine with conda installed but not all python versions (e.g. no native python 3). Potentially this might also be useful for the scientific python stack…

In conclusion, don’t use this, here be :dragon:s.

Usage

Have conda installed on your system. The recommended way (I think) is via miniconda, the not recommended way (which will almost certainly fail) is via pip, please don’t use this with conda installed via pip.

In the project’s directory (which has a tox.ini file):

cd project_dir
ctox

Why

I was sick of InterpreterNotFound when trying to use tox having installed python with conda. This solves that neatly and I thought it wouldn’t take very long to put together. No doubt I should’ve just hacked on tox, but there you are!

Why not?