[New-bugs-announce] [issue18367] See if a venv setup can be used for devinabox for coverage

[Brett Cannon]

New submission from Brett Cannon:

Right now there is a bunch of contorting with setuptools and coverage.py's checkout to get things in reasonable places, etc. Might be easiest to create a venv from the built checkout and then install both setuptools and the coverage.py checkout into the venv for easier setup/cleanup.

Might even be lucky enough that the venv can be left in place and simply have users do ``../cpython/python Tools/scripts/pyvenv --upgrade`` to have it start using their own built version so that the basic setup for at least setuptools works and then they only need to build coverage.py themselves (which is already scripted).

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messages: 192349
nosy: brett.cannon
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: See if a venv setup can be used for devinabox for coverage

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