[Buildbot-devel] Include tests in the distribution?

exarkun at twistedmatrix.com exarkun at twistedmatrix.com
Sun Feb 28 16:17:17 UTC 2010


On 05:05 am, dustin at zmanda.com wrote:
>I'd like to take an informal poll:
>
>should buildbot.tests be named in setup.py?
>
>If it is, then the tests get installed under site-packages, which
>doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
>
>On the other hand, if the package is not named in setup.py, then the
>tests are only available in checkouts from version control (which
>seems like the typical place to run them from, right?).
>
>What's "normal"?

How do you know if "setup.py install" worked if you can't run the tests 
on the installation it creates?

Tests should be installed, like everything else.

Jean-Paul




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