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On 27/07/2010 13:37, Marius Gedminas wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 01:32:20PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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.
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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)
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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All the best,<br>
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Michael<br>
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