Use Nox?

[henryiii]

In bin, we have some code that likely could be run by nox, and at least one piece of code that could be replaced by Nox. This could simplify some of the scripts - mostly looking at the first half of update_dependencies.py. It could be then run either from a Nox docker container, using the Nox action, or locally if someone has installed all the required versions of Python, without having the current --no-docker duplication.

This could possibly be augmented over time to take support running all our development actions, so a new developer could easily run these in a controlled environment without having to set up anything, and get a matching environment to the CI. I wasn't that fond of tox - too rigid with too many options and assumptions , but nox is not bad, much cleaner and more natural with nicer output. pip uses nox and tox (slowly transitioning to nox-only, I think). packaging and packaging.python.org use nox. Pretty much all the other pypa projects use tox.

Common dev actions would mostly be still available as a script (though the nox runner would install the requirements for you), though some actions (esp. ones like update_dependencies) could only run in Nox (mostly ones that require multiple Python versions).

Thoughts?

PS: personally, I run pipx run nox which means I don't have to install nox.

[henryiii]

For an example of something very similar for manylinux, see pypa/manylinux#1055 - noxfile https://github.com/pypa/manylinux/pull/1055/files#diff-f7a16a65f061822bcc73b8296f4dc837353d379d8d9cc5307982cb6941442835

[henryiii]

Another nox example: https://github.com/scikit-build/scikit-build-sample-projects/pull/12/files

[joerick]

nox looks like a great tool! I never used tox myself, it always had this 'heavy' feeling, probably because of the configuration files.

It could be then run either from a Nox docker container, using the Nox action, or locally if someone has installed all the required versions of Python, without having the current --no-docker duplication.

If this is possible, that would be great.