Actual test plan

[xavfernandez]

From the Discuss, here is what I understood the tests could look like:

• Prepare the artefacts: for all the packaging bricks: pip, setuptools, etc:
  • download the latest stable wheel release from PyPI
  • build a wheel from their development branch
• For each brick A, the test would be:
  • launch a local PyPI exposing A master wheel + the stable wheels of the other bricks
  • create a virtualenv and install the different bricks
  • try to install a curated list of packages ? Maybe https://pypistats.org/top ?

What are the bricks we want to test ? pip, setuptools, pep517, wheel, virtualenv, tox, (should we also include their dependencies ? like pytoml for pep517, etc).

[gaborbernat]

Pushed on master provisioning the wheels into a devpi server. On my fork, I've started creating some tests for virtualenv.

[brainwane]

This could be something that one of the paid contractors on pip works on.