[Duplicity-talk] Duplicity Testing...

[Scott Hannahs]

I maintain the “fink” installer for duplicity on Mac OS X.  I have been asked 
why I haven’t had duplicity run the built in test suite.  I think that the 
answer is that I have been lazy!  I started looking at it and have a few 
questions.

The duplicity program has some testing built in when the installer runs in 
“test” mode.  I am not well versed in python installers by any means.  But it 
appears that these tests are run with the installer command

setup.py -test

But this depends on some environment variable “python2” that should point to ???
% setup.py -test
env: python2: No such file or directory

If I run the tests manually I see that I need the packages “tox” and “pluggy” 
installed.  Is that correct?  Are there others?

I have tox installed and just (maybe??) made a module to install pluggy.

I am also not clear on how duplicity uses a server during the test or does it 
just use the local file system?

-Scott