sdist is missing tox.ini

[mtelka]

The sdist package at PyPI is missing tox.ini. Please add the file to the sdist to make downstream testing easier. Thank you.

[chayim]

Hi @mtelka, thanks for reporting this.

Maybe I can help - what are you trying to accomplish? I ask, because ideally we wouldn't include dev depencencies (dev_requirements.txt) and configurations (such as tox-docker) in the release package.

[mtelka]

I'm trying to package redis 4.4.0 for OpenIndiana. To do so I use sdist (we always use sdist to package Python projects). The packaging process includes testing to make sure the package is okay. Currently, with the latest sdist, we need to run pytest directly because there is missing tox.ini so we cannot use the (preferred) tox based testing. Since redis needs some Python packages for testing (e.g. pytest-async) we need to specify them manually as testing dependencies. If there is tox.ini included in the sdist (with all related files) the testing dependencies could be automatically detected and fulfilled by our building/packaging framework.

Thanks.

[mtelka]

tox.ini was removed from git so there is nothing to add to sdist.