On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 9:51 AM, David Cournapeau <[email protected]> wrote: > More precisely, if I install all our supported packages on Linux: > - I count ~ 308 packages by making the assumption that one directory in > site-packages is a package (wrong but decent approximation) > - I count as `with tests` a package with at least one directory called test > in say package > > With those assumptions, I count 46 % packages with tests installed. So it is > not "not very common". Granted, we are biased toward scientific packages > which to include tests in the package, but we also package popular > web/etc... packages.
For what it's worth, the Zope community has long been including tests inside packages (regardless of whether that's right or wrong). How the dependencies issue has been addressed has varied over time and depending on the authors of each package; sometimes tests_require is used, other times there's a [test] extra (as setuptools is universally accepted in the Zope community), and other times the test dependencies are just made package dependencies. Since zc.buildout is widely used in the Zope community, getting the right dependencies for the right processes has never been a significant issue. (And yes, most Zope packages use a src/ directory. Not to isolate the tests and the implementation, but to isolate the code from other files that may be present in the package.) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fred at fdrake.net> "A storm broke loose in my mind." --Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
