[Distutils] RFC: Barely minimal CI + tests + packaging in Python WAS: Guidelines for where to put tests & how to package them

[Olemis Lang]

Thnx for your reply !

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:00 PM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 10:41 AM 2/25/2010 -0500, Olemis Lang wrote:
>>
>> PS: BTW, how could I trigger easy_install(ation) at a given point
>> while implementing a distutils command, and let the command perform
>> further actions if deps are installed correctly ?
>
> Setuptools' "Distribution" object has a method for fetching dependencies.
>  See setuptools' "test" command for an example.  (This doesn't install the
> dependencies globally, just drops eggs into the build directory.  But
> they're there and available to be reused for installation in a later phase,
> under normal circumstances.)
>

So this means that setuptools `test` command already retrieves dependencies ?

If so, then I shouldn't care about that, because I'd only need to
override `run_tests` method in order to do what I want to do (i.e. use
another test runner ;o)

-- 
Regards,

Olemis.

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