Changelog history

1.5.0

• fix issue104: use setuptools by default, instead of distribute, now that setuptools has distribute merged.
• make sure test commands are searched first in the virtualenv
• re-fix issue2 - add whitelist_externals to be used in [testenv*] sections, allowing to avoid warnings for commands such as make, used from the commands value.
• fix issue97 - allow substitutions to reference from other sections (thanks Krisztian Fekete)
• fix issue92 - fix {envsitepackagesdir} to actually work again
• show (test) command that is being executed, thanks Lukasz Balcerzak
• re-license tox to MIT license
• depend on virtualenv-1.9.1
• rename README.txt to README.rst to make bitbucket happier

1.4.3

• use pip-script.py instead of pip.exe on win32 to avoid the lock exe file on execution issue (thanks Philip Thiem)
• introduce -l|–listenv option to list configured environments (thanks Lukasz Balcerzak)
• fix downloadcache determination to work according to docs: Only make pip use a download cache if PIP_DOWNLOAD_CACHE or a downloadcache=PATH testenv setting is present. (The ENV setting takes precedence)
• fix issue84 - pypy on windows creates a bin not a scripts venv directory (thanks Lukasz Balcerzak)
• experimentally introduce –installpkg=PATH option to install a package rather than create/install an sdist package. This will still require and use tox.ini and tests from the current working dir (and not from the remote package).
• substitute {envsitepackagesdir} with the package installation directory (closes #72) (thanks g2p)
• issue #70 remove PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE workaround now that virtualenv behaves properly (thanks g2p)
• merged tox-quickstart command, contributed by Marc Abramowitz, which generates a default tox.ini after asking a few questions
• fix #48 - win32 detection of pypy and other interpreters that are on PATH (thanks Gustavo Picon)
• fix grouping of index servers, it is now done by name instead of indexserver url, allowing to use it to separate dependencies into groups even if using the same default indexserver.
• look for “tox.ini” files in parent dirs of current dir (closes #34)
• the “py” environment now by default uses the current interpreter (sys.executable) make tox’ own setup.py test execute tests with it (closes #46)
• change tests to not rely on os.path.expanduser (closes #60), also make mock session return args[1:] for more precise checking (closes #61) thanks to Barry Warsaw for both.

1.4.2

• fix some tests which fail if /tmp is a symlink to some other place
• “python setup.py test” now runs tox tests via tox :) also added an example on how to do it for your project.

1.4.1

• fix issue41 better quoting on windows - you can now use “<” and “>” in deps specifications, thanks Chris Withers for reporting

1.4

• fix issue26 - no warnings on absolute or relative specified paths for commands
• fix issue33 - commentchars are ignored in key-value settings allowing for specifying commands like: python -c “import sys ; print sys” which would formerly raise irritating errors because the ”;” was considered a comment
• tweak and improve reporting
• refactor reporting and virtualenv manipulation to be more accessible from 3rd party tools
• support value substitution from other sections with the {[section]key} syntax
• fix issue29 - correctly point to pytest explanation for importing modules fully qualified
• fix issue32 - use –system-site-packages and don’t pass –no-site-packages
• add python3.3 to the default env list, so early adopters can test
• drop python2.4 support (you can still have your tests run on
• fix the links/checkout howtos in the docs python-2.4, just tox itself requires 2.5 or higher.

1.3

• fix: allow to specify wildcard filesystem paths when specifying dependencies such that tox searches for the highest version
• fix issue issue21: clear PIP_REQUIRES_VIRTUALENV which avoids pip installing to the wrong environment, thanks to bb’s streeter
• make the install step honour a testenv’s setenv setting (thanks Ralf Schmitt)

1.2

• remove the virtualenv.py that was distributed with tox and depend on >=virtualenv-1.6.4 (possible now since the latter fixes a few bugs that the inlining tried to work around)
• fix issue10: work around UnicodeDecodeError when invoking pip (thanks Marc Abramowitz)
• fix a problem with parsing {posargs} in tox commands (spotted by goodwill)
• fix the warning check for commands to be installed in testenvironment (thanks Michael Foord for reporting)

1.1

• fix issue5 - don’t require argparse for python versions that have it
• fix issue6 - recreate virtualenv if installing dependencies failed
• fix issue3 - fix example on frontpage
• fix issue2 - warn if a test command does not come from the test environment
• fixed/enhanced: except for initial install always call “-U –no-deps” for installing the sdist package to ensure that a package gets upgraded even if its version number did not change. (reported on TIP mailing list and IRC)
• inline virtualenv.py (1.6.1) script to avoid a number of issues, particularly failing to install python3 environments from a python2 virtualenv installation.
• rework and enhance docs for display on readthedocs.org

1.0

• move repository and toxbootstrap links to http://bitbucket.org/hpk42/tox
• fix issue7: introduce a “minversion” directive such that tox bails out if it does not have the correct version.
• fix issue24: introduce a way to set environment variables for for test commands (thanks Chris Rose)
• fix issue22: require virtualenv-1.6.1, obsoleting virtualenv5 (thanks Jannis Leidel) and making things work with pypy-1.5 and python3 more seamlessly
• toxbootstrap.py (used by jenkins build slaves) now follows the latest release of virtualenv
• fix issue20: document format of URLs for specifying dependencies
• fix issue19: substitute Hudson for Jenkins everywhere following the renaming of the project. NOTE: if you used the special [tox:hudson] section it will now need to be named [tox:jenkins].
• fix issue 23 / apply some ReST fixes
• change the positional argument specifier to use {posargs:} syntax and fix issues #15 and #10 by refining the argument parsing method (Chris Rose)
• remove use of inipkg lazy importing logic - the namespace/imports are anyway very small with tox.
• fix a fspath related assertion to work with debian installs which uses symlinks
• show path of the underlying virtualenv invocation and bootstrap virtualenv.py into a working subdir
• added a CONTRIBUTORS file

0.9

• fix pip-installation mixups by always unsetting PIP_RESPECT_VIRTUALENV (thanks Armin Ronacher)
• issue1: Add a toxbootstrap.py script for tox, thanks to Sridhar Ratnakumar
• added support for working with different and multiple PyPI indexservers.
• new option: -r|–recreate to force recreation of virtualenv
• depend on py>=1.4.0 which does not contain or install the py.test anymore which is now a separate distribution “pytest”.
• show logfile content if there is an error (makes CI output more readable)

0.8

• work around a virtualenv limitation which crashes if PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE is set.
• run pip/easy installs from the environment log directory, avoids naming clashes between env names and dependencies (thanks ronny)
• require a more recent version of py lib
• refactor and refine config detection to work from a single file and to detect the case where a python installation overwrote an old one and resulted in a new executable. This invalidates the existing virtualenvironment now.
• change all internal source to strip trailing whitespaces

0.7

• use virtualenv5 (my own fork of virtualenv3) for now to create python3 environments, fixes a couple of issues and makes tox more likely to work with Python3 (on non-windows environments)
• add sitepackages option for testenv sections so that environments can be created with access to globals (default is not to have access, i.e. create environments with --no-site-packages.
• addressing issue4: always prepend venv-path to PATH variable when calling subprocesses
• fix issue2: exit with proper non-zero return code if there were errors or test failures.
• added unittest2 examples contributed by Michael Foord
• only allow ‘True’ or ‘False’ for boolean config values (lowercase / uppercase is irrelevant)
• recreate virtualenv on changed configurations

0.6

• fix OSX related bugs that could cause the caller’s environment to get screwed (sorry). tox was using the same file as virtualenv for tracking the Python executable dependency and there also was confusion wrt links. this should be fixed now.
• fix long description, thanks Michael Foord

0.5

• initial release