I strongly agree with this. I think a lot of the consumers of sdists are people packaging projects for distributions (fedora, debian, arch, etc), and they want to run the tests for their package.
I don't install tests for various reasons, including the fact that they are not part of the public interface of the package. On September 10, 2018 1:17:45 AM UTC, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >Bert JW Regeer <xiste...@0x58.com> writes: > >> Speaking as a maintainer of various different packages for the Pylons >> project, we include the following in our sdists: >> >> - source code for the package >> - tests for the package >> - documentation for the package >> >> and of course the license/history/changelog/everything you'd >> theoretically need to create a fork (minus .git). Our sdists are >> pretty big as a result. >> >> In our wheels we ship: >> >> - source code for the package/software >> >> And nothing else, tests are not included in the wheel. > >That seems like an eminently sensible scheme: The ‘wheel’ is for >installation and should be targeted only to that; the ‘sdist’ is the >source distribution and should contain all the source. > >-- >\ “You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a | > `\ victor without having victims.” —Harriet Woods, 1927–2007 | >_o__) >| >Ben Finney >-- >Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org >To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org >https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ >Message archived at >https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/OPIZIKGLQD3UVZQ2JK7M7YYVZN6JJ7VT/
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