[wip] Add configuration scripts for local IPFS server

[c0llab0rat0r]

• Add scripts to enable experimental features required by functional tests
• Adjust README

[ntninja]

I think is may be a misunderstanding here: tox -e py3 will start test/run-tests.py which already starts and configures the IPFS daemon (if in ${PATH}), and also sets up coverage reporting since that is quite annoying to do, before invoking pytest in process with a special plugin for the test_shutdown test.

[c0llab0rat0r]

tox -e py3 will start test/run-tests.py which already starts and configures the IPFS daemon `

I didn't see that behavior, I'll take a look again.

[c0llab0rat0r]

tox -e py3 will start test/run-tests.py which already starts and configures the IPFS daemon `

I didn't see that behavior, I'll take a look again.

Ok, so the misunderstanding here is that I was running the entire test suite from PyCharm, which doesn't run the shell script referenced by tox - it expects pytest to take care of all fixture and dependency setup and tear down.

https://pypi.org/project/pytest-docker/ is a more generalized solution to this problem that makes test execution more flexible.