Hi Holger,

Ok, that makes sense, however we always use easy_install, currently I
have easy_install, easy_install-2.5 and easy_install-2.6. Will this
work the same as with setup.py?

Gordon

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:22 AM, holger krekel <hol...@merlinux.eu> wrote:
> Hi Gordon,
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 09:05 +1100, Gordon Wrigley wrote:
>> Holger,
>>
>> So I currently have python, python2, python2.5 and python2.6 available
>> on my machine. 2.5 and 2.6 are actual executables, the other two are
>> symlinks to python2.6.
>>
>> What py.test executables will I get?
>
> python setup.py install    -> py.test
> python2 setup.py install   -> py.test2
> python2.5 setup.py install -> py.test2.5
> python2.6 setup.py install -> py.test2.6
>
>> My preference would be for it to mirror the python ones. I don't care
>> about python2 so much, but having it mirror the other 3 would be good.
>
> seems to match.  Maybe i also additionally always do a "py.test" proper
> so that people using the current way are not surprised.   That would mirror
> how 'easy_install' is installed (it has a '-' dash in the middle though which
> i find suboptimal tab-completion-wise)
>
> On Windows it looks slightly different at the moment because there are usually
> no "pythonXYZ" differentiations but only different c:\\PythonXYZ\Python.exe 
> files.
> As there is no common "bin" dir i guess using "py.test" always there is kind 
> of
> fine?!
>
> holger
>
>>
>> Gordon
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:00 AM, holger krekel <hol...@merlinux.eu> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 22:56 +0100, Laura Creighton wrote:
>> >> In a message of Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:48:52 +0100, holger krekel writes:
>> >> >Hi all,
>> >> >
>> >> >i just committed a change which i'd release together with a bunch
>> >> >of other things as py-1.1.2.  It makes py.test install as
>> >> >
>> >> >    py.test        # if python executable has basename 'python'
>> >> >    py.test3       # if python executable has version_info >= (3,0)
>> >> >    py.test2.x     # if python executable has basename 'python2.x' (x in
>> >> >'4567')
>> >> >    py.test-jython # if we are running on jython2.5
>> >> >    py.test-pypy   # if we are running on pypy
>> >> >
>> >> >does this make sense to you, objections?  It does for me because
>> >> >i can more easily run tests with various interpreters.  But
>> >> >it means if you run "python2.4 setup.py install" you will not
>> >> >get a 'py.test2.4' only, and no 'py.test' proper.
>> >> >
>> >> >cheers,
>> >> >holger
>> >>
>> >> Ah, you mean you _will_ only get a py.text2.4 ?? or ...
>> >
>> > yes, currently it would be 'py.test2.4' only if the executable is
>> > named "python2.4".  If it's named "python" and has version_info==(2,4,..)
>> > it would still install as 'py.test'.
>> >
>> > holger
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