On 01/19/2018 05:48 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 8:30 AM, Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.ma...@biologie.uni-freiburg.de <mailto:wolfgang.ma...@biologie.uni-freiburg.de>> wrote:I think that's a really nice idea. With an official site-packages/test directory there could be pip support for optionally installing tests alongside a package if its layout allows it. So end users could just install things without tests, but developers could do: pip install <package> --with-tests or something to get everything?Oh, I just realized there's another problem here. The existing 'test' package (which is not a namespace package) would hide the site-packages/test directory.
Well, that shouldn't be a big obstacle since one could just as well choose another name ( __tests__ for example?). Alternatively, package-specific test directories could exist *inside* site-packages. So much like today's <package>.dist-info directories there could be <package>.test dirs?
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