On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 07:07:31 -0400 Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've never, in my entire life [...]
Can I suggest your entire life is an anecdotal data point here? > This is still ignoring the problems of test dependencies Only if your tests have dependencies that runtime doesn't have. > as well so you'll > still need to ask them to install some number of dependencies, and I think > it's > fairly trivial to ask someone to download a tarball, untar it, and run two > commands. Any number of things can be described as trivial depending on the skillset and patience of the user. When users report a bug, they are not expecting to be asked to download and "untar" stuff. Not every user is a programmer. > You're confusing "ships the test suite as part of the package" with "runs the > test suite on the installed package". The two aren't really related, you can > run the tests against an installed package trivially in either situation. It's not trivial, because if you aren't careful you'll be running them against the tarball / checkout instead (because of Python munging the PYTHONPATH behind your back, for example), and this can go unnoticed for a long time. By contrast, if you don't need a tarball / checkout to run them, you can guarantee they are run against the installed location. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
