[TIP] including (or not) tests within your package

[Michael Foord]

On 27/07/2010 13:37, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 01:32:20PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
>    
>> The trick then becomes management of the build script so that the
>> install step does *not* deploy the tests. Which requires thinking of
>> one's package as a package to be deployed, even though you're deploying
>> it in source form. From that point, it's a matter of learning about
>> Distutils and all the rest.
>>      
> Other than wasting a bit of disk space, what are the downsides of
> installing the tests?
>
> For example, PyGame recently changed their distribution so the
> tests get installed and can be run by any end-user with
>
>    python -m pygame.tests.__main__
>
> (I think it's just 'python -m pygame.tests' for Python 2.7 and 3.x)
>    

Yep, I'm in favour of deploying tests (as a sub-package). As you say, 
the only cost is a few kilobytes of disk space and it can be very 
helpful for end users to be able to run the tests and provide error 
information.

Where a project is a single module, so there is nowhere for a 
sub-package to conveniently live, I tend to distribute the tests in the 
package but not have them installed by setup.py.


All the best,

Michael

> Marius Gedminas
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