[Buildbot-devel] Warning during 0.8.5 install

Tom Prince tom.prince at ualberta.net
Tue Sep 20 23:24:55 UTC 2011


On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:15:28 -0500, "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin at v.igoro.us> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:15 PM, William Deegan
> <bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:
> > I'm seeing the following warning during install (via pip in virtualenv)
> >  Running setup.py egg_info for package buildbot
> >    /oasys/tools/stow/python-2.7.1/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'test_requires'
> >      warnings.warn(msg)
> 
> Hm, you're the second to see that.  I added it because people are
> failing to install 'mock', then complaining that the tests fail.  But
> this failure is worse.
> 
> Maybe I should remove it :)

Perhaps have a test that checks for the existance of mock that fails
early and loudly, rather than having lots of tests fail.

  Tom




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