At 11:35 AM 11/15/2007 -0500, Tres Seaver wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Jim Fulton wrote: > > On Mar 11, 2007, at 11:08 AM, Nathan R. Yergler wrote: > > ... > >> I tried using zc.recipe.testbrowser, thinking that maybe it'd look at > >> the tests_require for the target eggs, but no such luck. > > > > The tests_require option is only visible to the setup script. It > > doesn't cause any data to be included in egg info. It is an > > attractive nuisance IMO. > >I hope the attached patch (against the head of the setuptools 0.6 >branch) makes it less of a nuisance. The patch adds an egg-info file >entry point which writes the 'tests_require' value to a fill in the >.egg-info directory.
Interesting, and worth considering. Meanwhile, note that you can also distribute this as a plugin, or register the entry point in zc.buildout. That is, you don't need this to be a patch in order to get the same behavior in a given Python installation. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
