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On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Dan Smith <dms at danplanet.com> wrote:

>> issues such as slowness because of sdist can be addressed.
>
> I'd love to know what we can do in this regard (at least for nova).
> Running a single test with tox takes a lot longer than it should just
> for the setup process :)

I know sdist is slow, but I saw performance improvements in turning
pip caching on. This only helps during venv rebuilds, and perhaps its
because I have unusually poor network connectivity, but I have no
regrets with adding:

     export PIP_DOWNLOAD_CACHE=~/cache/pip

To my bashrc.

Michael