Testing against multiple versions of Python

Duncan Booth duncan.booth at invalid.invalid
Fri Oct 19 05:17:26 EDT 2012


Michele Simionato <michele.simionato at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yesterday I released a new version of the decorator module. It should
> run under Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3. I did not
> have the will to install on my machine 8 different versions of Python,
> so I just tested it with Python 2.7 and 3.3. But I do not feel happy
> with that. Is there any kind of service where a package author can
> send a pre-release version of her package and have its tests run
> againsts a set of different Python versions? I seem to remember
> somebody talking about a service like that years ago but I don't
> remembers. I do not see anything on PyPI. Any advice is welcome! 
> 
Not exactly what you asked for, but if you clone 
https://github.com/collective/buildout.python then a single command will 
build Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, and 3.3 on your system.

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