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@amotl amotl commented Jan 23, 2025

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The configuration for tox apparently does not receive much maintenance, so let's remove it. Personally, I stopped using it since ages.

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tox has been popular in times when it was easier to run a full Python test matrix on your workstation, for example supported by pyenv, compared to provisioning and maintaining it on a Jenkins CI runner.

Nowadays, it became so easy to run the full-version test matrix on GitHub Actions (GHA), so tox became obsolete in such environments that heavily use GHA. Now that recent advancements added uv to the table, sandbox environments don't need to feel ousted.

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`tox` has been popular in times when it was easier to run a full Python
test matrix on your workstation, for example supported by `pyenv`,
compared to provisioning and maintaining it on a Jenkins CI runner.

Nowadays, it became so easy to run the full-version test matrix on
GitHub Actions (GHA), so `tox` became obsolete in such environments
that heavily use GHA. Now that recent advancements added `uv` to the
table, sandbox environments don't need to feel ousted.
@amotl amotl requested review from seut and surister January 23, 2025 19:43
@amotl amotl marked this pull request as ready for review January 23, 2025 19:44
@amotl amotl merged commit 36e9d69 into master Jan 24, 2025
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@amotl amotl deleted the remove-tox branch January 24, 2025 12:12
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