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

[Amirouche Boubekki <amirouche@hypermove.net>]

On 2015-07-10 03:38, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> 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.

This is great! I'll have a look at it this week end.

>> I intend to propose a 20 minute talk about
>> guix-tox at the next PyConFR.

Nice!

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

I wondering whether it is possible to use the same recipe for `guix 
environment` and `guix container`. The idea behind that is that one can 
use environment for dev and container for deployment.