[TIP] Guidelines for where to put tests & how to package them

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Fri Feb 26 12:00:05 PST 2010


On 26/02/2010 19:52, Olemis Lang wrote:
> [snip...]
>>      
>>> so it would be very nice when defining packaging
>>> conventions, layout ... not to enforce the use of that protocol, so
>>> that if another discovery is used then it could still be compatible
>>> with the more abstract good practices. (all this said from my selfish
>>> position, I confess)
>>>
>>>        
>> Yes, but get_suite/test_suite is not supported, so distutils2 still *should*
>> use a unittest supported protocol.
>>
>> Probably Tarek and I need to discuss how
>> the setup.py test command should work for distutils2. It should support
>> non-unittest tests as well (I guess?) so specifying a unittest suite is not
>> necessarily ideal.
>>
>>      
> Well, unittest invokes `suite` callable by default
Where does unittest invoke suite callable by default?

Michael

> whereas test
> command invokes `test_suite`. So basically it's a duplicate convention
> AFAICS (CMIIW). If some type of reconciliation is going to happen
> that'd be good, but :
>
>    - I don't what's the most popular style
>    - the fact is that more similar redundant conventions
>      are emerging these days, so ...
>
>    


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