[openstack-dev] [nova] Shared envdir across tox environments

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Thu Jun 28 15:26:59 UTC 2018


On 06/28/2018 11:18 AM, Stephen Finucane wrote:
> Just a quick heads up that an upcoming change to nova's 'tox.ini' will
> change the behaviour of multiple environments slightly.
> 
>    https://review.openstack.org/#/c/534382/9
> 
> With this change applied, tox will start sharing environment
> directories (e.g. '.tox/py27') among environments with identical
> requirements and Python versions. This will mean you won't need to
> download dependencies for every environment, which should massively
> reduce the amount of time taken to (re)initialize many environments and
>   save a bit of disk space to boot. This shouldn't affect most people
> but it could affect people that use some fancy tooling that depends on
> these directories. If this _is_ going to affect you, be sure to make
> your concerns known on the review sooner rather than later so we can
> resolve said concerns.

+100



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