[Buildbot-devel] Warning during 0.8.5 install

[William Deegan]

On Sep 20, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Tom Prince wrote:

> 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.

Can't you specify so pip/easy_install would also install mock?

-Bill