[Distutils] [issue24] Rename easy_install

[Chris Galvan]

Tarek Ziadé wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Dave Peterson 
> <dpeterson at enthought.com <mailto:dpeterson at enthought.com>> wrote:
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>         If you want to expand the available development pool for
>         setuptools, I would strongly suggest focusing development
>         efforts on creating a regression test suite emphasizing
>         end-to-end functional testing of the current functionality.
>          Such tests would ideally be factored for narrative clarity
>         and compact expressiveness, rather like Jim Fulton's doctests
>         for easy_install's .exe wrappers, and the doctests for
>         zc.buildout.  (Because if they're too complicated for me to
>         read, they'll take too long for me to review.)
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>     Okay, we'll see what we can do about that here at Enthought.  So
>     far we'd been focusing on bugs / new features that we thought
>     needed to be addressed but that effort can be redirected a bit to
>     helping write tests.  I think Tarek suggested a sprint this
>     weekend but I'm not sure if any of our guys will be available that
>     soon.  I'll ask around.
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> Ok cool,
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> I can spend a bit of time on sunday on this topic, writing a few 
> scenarii. What I have been thinking of is:
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> - a doctest for each command setuptools provides
> - a doctest for easy_install
> - a doctest that uses setuptools/distutils to build, release, and 
> upload a package
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> Anything else in mind ?
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> Tarek
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That list looks like a great place to start :)  I can spend some time 
this weekend working on this as well, if you want to coordinate efforts.

-- Chris Galvan
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