Hi Galaxy-Devs

I would like to have a single python / planemo environment that is portable across computers where I can use planemo test (which instantiates an instance of Galaxy).

Currently, we're using conda on our current network. That way we have shared environments where the version of python and associated modules is consistent across network computers/users. This way, any user (including the galaxy system) can use exactly the same python version and modules which greatly simplifies management. I guess it's possible to manage dependencies through toolsheds, but we didn't want to do that.

Although probably not optimal, what we do is to start a conda environment between the <command> tags in a tool's xml for python scripts, e.g.:

source activate pythonEnv; python Script.py $input1 > $output1

</command>

The problem is that planemo is also installed in this environment, and since one cannot start a galaxy instance within a conda environment, planemo test now fails (since the environment doesn't get loaded correctly). I can get this to work in planemo 0.14, but not in the newer versions. Is there a workaround for this, a better setup, or must I stay with planemo 0.14?

Thanks!