tox-pip-version 0.0.2

Select PIP version to use with tox

Overview

This is a tox plugin that preinstalls a specific version of pip in each tox environment.

pip install tox-pip-version

This works around the default behavior of tox/virtualenv that always installs the latest version pip. It is an improvment over the VIRTUALENV_NO_DOWNLOAD=1 option that does not install the latest version, but could result in usage of an outdated version of pip.

Recommendation: Do not pin the pip version long term. You get more stable repeatable builds, but at the cost of using an outdated (possibly vulnerable) package. This should be used as a temporary fix for breakages in upstream pip, or in conjunction with a regular process to update the version pin.

Usage

Install the package and include pip_version in your tox.ini

[testenv]
pip_version = 19.0.1

Or, set the TOX_PIP_VERSION environment variable,

export TOX_PIP_VERSION=18.1
tox

The plugin will install that specific pip into the tox-created virtualenv, just after tox creates the virtualenv, but before dependencies are installed.

The pip_version within tox.ini, if present, is always used over the environment variable.

If neither pip_version or TOX_PIP_VERSION is present, the plugin does nothing.

Tests

Use make test to run the tests, which includes linting and functional tests.

Each of the tests/* directories is a "feature" that needs testing. Each feature sub-directory contains a tox.ini file that sets pip version in a particular way, and then uses a tox command to check the correct pip version was installed.