diff --git a/changelog.d/8963.misc b/changelog.d/8963.misc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..495d89e8ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/8963.misc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Clean up tox.ini file; disable coverage checking for non-test runs.
diff --git a/mypy.ini b/mypy.ini
index 1904204025..0518d3f1af 100644
--- a/mypy.ini
+++ b/mypy.ini
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ show_error_codes = True
show_traceback = True
mypy_path = stubs
warn_unreachable = True
+
+# To find all folders that pass mypy you run:
+#
+# find synapse/* -type d -not -name __pycache__ -exec bash -c "mypy '{}' > /dev/null" \; -print
+
files =
scripts-dev/sign_json,
synapse/api,
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index c232676826..8e8b495292 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ deps =
python-subunit
junitxml
coverage
- coverage-enable-subprocess
+
+ # this is pinned since it's a bit of an obscure package.
+ coverage-enable-subprocess==1.0
# cyptography 2.2 requires setuptools >= 18.5
#
@@ -23,29 +25,37 @@ deps =
# install the "enum34" dependency of cryptography.
pip>=10
-setenv =
- PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE = no_byte_code
- COVERAGE_PROCESS_START = {toxinidir}/.coveragerc
-
[testenv]
deps =
{[base]deps}
extras = all, test
-whitelist_externals =
- sh
-
setenv =
- {[base]setenv}
+ # use a postgres db for tox environments with "-postgres" in the name
+ # (see https://tox.readthedocs.io/en/3.20.1/config.html#factors-and-factor-conditional-settings)
postgres: SYNAPSE_POSTGRES = 1
+
+ # this is used by .coveragerc to refer to the top of our tree.
TOP={toxinidir}
passenv = *
commands =
- /usr/bin/find "{toxinidir}" -name '*.pyc' -delete
- # Add this so that coverage will run on subprocesses
- {envbindir}/coverage run "{envbindir}/trial" {env:TRIAL_FLAGS:} {posargs:tests} {env:TOXSUFFIX:}
+ # the "env" invocation enables coverage checking for sub-processes. This is
+ # particularly important when running trial with `-j`, since that will make
+ # it run tests in a subprocess, whose coverage would otherwise not be
+ # tracked. (It also makes an explicit `coverage run` command redundant.)
+ #
+ # (See https://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/coverage-5.3/subprocess.html.
+ # Note that the `coverage.process_startup()` call is done by
+ # `coverage-enable-subprocess`.)
+ #
+ # we use "env" rather than putting a value in `setenv` so that it is not
+ # inherited by other tox environments.
+ #
+ # keep this in sync with the copy in `testenv:py35-old`.
+ #
+ /usr/bin/env COVERAGE_PROCESS_START={toxinidir}/.coveragerc "{envbindir}/trial" {env:TRIAL_FLAGS:} {posargs:tests} {env:TOXSUFFIX:}
# As of twisted 16.4, trial tries to import the tests as a package (previously
# it loaded the files explicitly), which means they need to be on the
@@ -80,10 +90,9 @@ deps =
lxml
coverage
- coverage-enable-subprocess
+ coverage-enable-subprocess==1.0
commands =
- /usr/bin/find "{toxinidir}" -name '*.pyc' -delete
# Make all greater-thans equals so we test the oldest version of our direct
# dependencies, but make the pyopenssl 17.0, which can work against an
# OpenSSL 1.1 compiled cryptography (as older ones don't compile on Travis).
@@ -92,7 +101,11 @@ commands =
# Install Synapse itself. This won't update any libraries.
pip install -e ".[test]"
- {envbindir}/coverage run "{envbindir}/trial" {env:TRIAL_FLAGS:} {posargs:tests} {env:TOXSUFFIX:}
+ # we have to duplicate the command from `testenv` rather than refer to it
+ # as `{[testenv]commands}`, because we run on ubuntu xenial, which has
+ # tox 2.3.1, and https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/208.
+ #
+ /usr/bin/env COVERAGE_PROCESS_START={toxinidir}/.coveragerc "{envbindir}/trial" {env:TRIAL_FLAGS:} {posargs:tests} {env:TOXSUFFIX:}
[testenv:benchmark]
deps =
@@ -157,7 +170,3 @@ deps =
{[base]deps}
extras = all,mypy
commands = mypy
-
-# To find all folders that pass mypy you run:
-#
-# find synapse/* -type d -not -name __pycache__ -exec bash -c "mypy '{}' > /dev/null" \; -print
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