[Distutils] 'python setup.py test' in develop mode?

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sat Dec 18 00:16:52 CET 2010


At 05:26 PM 12/17/2010 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>Something bugs me about virtualenv, distribute, development, and testing.  I
>figure I'm probably doing something wrong and that y'all will be able to set
>me straight.
>
>I'm working on a new tool called pkgme[1].  It uses distribute and recommends
>using virtualenv for development.  After activating the virtualenv you can do
>'python setup.py develop' and do convenient in-place editing so that your
>changes to the source show up immediately in the running environment.  So far
>so good.
>
>However, when I want to run the test suite, it does the equivalent of a
>'python setup.py build' and then runs the tests out of the
>build/lib.{platform}-{version} directory.

Really?  That sounds wrong.  "python setup.py test" should run the 
tests against the *source* tree, with in-place extension builds.



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