Coverage remained the same at 39.85% when pulling ebaf9b5 on tseaver:testing-neaten into c431900 on google:master.

This still fails to finish the install and does not fix #4 on my machine: https://gist.github.com/dhermes/f0c0650526c8d62f9230

In particular, check out the results of ls -1 .tox/py27/bin/g* after the first and second runs of tox -e py27. The failure is because gen_client doesn't get created when the environment is brand new

@dhermes just to confirm: is this just a vanilla ubuntu 14.04 machine? if so i want to try and repro this in GCE, to understand what's going on.

either this is an issue in my tox.ini/setup.py, or it's a bug in tox. i'm quite wary about claiming the latter.

Yes vanilla Ubuntu. (Also I got sudo: false mixed up with sudo: true; we use false in gcloud-python and I'm the one that committed it.)

grr, so i can't repro this on a GCE instance. you're 14.04, with recent python/pip/tox?

Here is mine:

https://gist.github.com/tseaver/cfbacaae0426c428f2e0

Why are we wrestling all this when the failing test needs to be pulled out into a system / integration test anyhow?

@dhermes so i don't care about the test so much -- but the core issue is that apitools isn't getting installed correctly on your machine, right?

or is this only under tox?

@craigcitro It's only under tox. I just tried with a virtual env and had no issues:

$ virtualenv venv
...
$ source venv/bin/activate
...
(venv)$ which gen_client
# Nothing
(venv)$ pip install google-apitools[testing]
...  # No failures printed
(venv)$ which gen_client
...venv/bin/gen_client

@dhermes so wait -- if you just add a new tox env with

[testenv:confusion]
basepython = python2.7
deps = 
    mock
    nose
commands = echo "hello"

and run tox -e confusion, the new env doesn't have gen_client at all?

tox doesn't like echo, so I replaced with commands = python -c 'print "hello"'.

Just as with py27, the first run fails to create gen_client and the second does so successfully:
https://gist.github.com/dhermes/6b42e9242c4f531ea643

@dhermes does it say anything insightful if you do tox -v -v?

Nope. But it did point out that on the first run, the "install" gets logged to .tox/py27/log/py27-2.log and on the second run to .tox/log/tox-0.log. The first log is very different, it runs

pip install .tox/dist/google-apitools-0.4.1.zip

while the second runs

python setup.py sdist ...

to recreate the zip.

Is anyone still pursuing this PR, do you mind if we close it?

I'm not pushing for it.