various cleanups, better parallelism and build-dir structure

ci_scripts/run-python-test.sh

@@ -1,32 +1,32 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 #
-# Run Python functional test for Delta Chat core. 
-#
+# Run functional tests for Delta Chat core using the python bindings 
+# and tox/pytest. 
 
-set -e -x
+set -e +x
 
-# build the core library 
-cargo build --release -p deltachat_ffi --target=$TARGET
+# make sure we have proper settings to run Online tests 
+X=${DCC_PY_LIVECONFIG:?need env var to run Online tests}
+set -x
 
-# Statically link against libdeltachat.a.
-export DCC_RS_DEV=$(pwd)
+# for core-building and python install step
+export DCC_RS_TARGET=release 
+export DCC_RS_DEV=`pwd`
 
 cd python
 
+python install_python_bindings.py 
+
 # remove and inhibit writing PYC files 
 rm -rf tests/__pycache__
 rm -rf src/deltachat/__pycache__
 export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
 
-# make sure we have proper settings to run Online tests 
-X=${DCC_PY_LIVECONFIG:?need env var to run Online tests}
-
 # run python tests (tox invokes pytest to run tests in python/tests)
 # we split out qr-tests run to minimize likelyness of flaky tests
 # (some qr tests are pretty heavy in terms of send/received
 # messages and async-imap's likely has concurrency problems, 
 # eg https://github.com/async-email/async-imap/issues/4 )
-tox -e lint,py37 -- --reruns 3 -k "not qr" tests/
-tox -e py37 -- --reruns 5 -k "qr" tests/
+tox -e lint,py37 
 unset DCC_PY_LIVECONFIG