Re: Call for testing : guix-tox, a version of tox that uses "guix environment".

[Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>]

Cyril Roelandt writes:

> Hey!
>
> Those of who you write Python code probably know tox[1], a tool used to
> manage tests/builds for Python. It uses virtualenv[2], which allows
> developers to create "isolated" environments and install packages
> without polluting their systems.
>
> I hacked tox to replace virtualenv with "guix environment". The code is
> available at https://git.framasoft.org/Steap/guix-tox , in the
> "guix-tox" branch (the master branch is just a mirror of tox). Note that
> I will probably use "git push -f" on this branch :) I explained the
> details in README.rst.
>
> If there are Python developers on this list, I would love to know what
> they think about this. I intend to propose a 20 minute talk about
> guix-tox at the next PyConFR.
>
> print("Happy Hacking!")
>
> Cyril.
>
>
> [1] https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/tox
> [2] https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/

This is great!  I've also been very interested in "guix environment" as
a universal virtualenv.  Replacing tox is an excellent example/usage!

Main challenge right now is getting enough python packages (not to
mention all those javascript dependencies...) packaged to be usable for
many things tox is used for.  But that's a more general problem right
now! :)

Hack on,
 - Chris