On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 09:55:25 -0400, Brian Callahan <bcal...@devio.us>
wrote:

> Hi Stuart --
> 
> On 09/26/18 05:19, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2018/09/25 21:15, Pamela Mosiejczuk wrote:  
> >> There are no tests included, but the regression test structure is
> >> not empty. Per off-list discussion with bcallah@ and danj@, I've
> >> nonetheless set NO_TEST=Yes, as running 'make test' with python2
> >> downloads a flake8 package through pip.  
> > flake8 should be set as a test dependency. If it's already
> > installed then this should stop it from being downloaded at test
> > time. 
> 
> This was my advice. However, flake8 being installed doesn't entirely 
> stop it from being downloaded.
> If you run
> env FLAVOR=python3 make test
> then flake8 will not be downloaded (provided you already have it
> installed). However,
> make test
> will still download a python2 pip of flake8, even if flake8 is
> installed.

Indeed.

> So my guess is there needs to be some patch for that, though I
> haven't had the time to look at it.

Sure we could patch the setup.py to remove the tdep on flake8. But
there's no test shipped in the tgz anyway, so patching it would
make no sense imho (other than giving Pamela a reason to practice
patching ;)).

The tgz provided by Pamela is ok danj@ 

Cheers,
Daniel

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