[TIP] How do you test your setup.py?

[Ben Finney]

Marius Gedminas <marius at gedmin.as> writes:

> I'm not sure if this topic is better raised here or on the distutils
> mailing list.  I'll try here first.

The discussion seems fine for either forum.

> How do you test your source distributions? How do you make sure the
> tarball created by 'python setup.py sdist' is complete and correct?
> 
> My attempt at this … builds the source distribution, unpacks it in a
> temporary directory and tries to build the source distribution again,
> then compares the two tarballs.

I build the source distribution, then use ‘virtualenv’ to install the
package in a Python-insulated environment directory, then run the
complete test suite and report its results. Afterwards the environment
directory can be discarded.

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Ben Finney
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