[PATCH 4/4] tox: Test all supported versions of DRF

[Daniel Axtens]

Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru> writes:

> On Wed, 2017-04-05 at 14:29 +1000, Daniel Axtens wrote:
>> Hi Stephen,
>> 
>> Thanks for doing all of these - I will test them soon.
>
> No problem. Do note that there's an apparent issue with DRF 3.4 and
> Django 1.10. It _should_ work, but it gives an odd warning. You can
> probably ignore that particular combination given the age gap between
> them.
>
>> > I'm not sure about this one: it's a _lot_ of extra testing that I'm
>> > not
>> > so sure people will run. I wonder if it's even worth it? Perhaps
>> > Travis
>> > could test using system packages in addition to pip?
>> 
>> I have a partial patch in this direction - I suggest adding things
>> like
>> py{27,35}-{xenial,jessie,etc} that install the versions known to be
>> available on those platforms.
>
> Do be aware that those packages frequently carry backports from newer
> versions and might be different to the version found in pip. Testing
> with _actual_ system packages would be a far better indicator.
>
> Also - I ran these tests last night and it took over an hour. That's a
> bit long for anything non-automated, I think. Must find a better way.

OK - I have been building docker files for production deployment*: they use
the system packages. I will rework those and send them.

Note that I haven't been able to find a system package for
drf-nested-routers. Perhaps we could 'vendor' that?

Regards,
Daniel

* see patchwork.dja.id.au
>
> Cheers,
> Stephen