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

[Olemis Lang]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:29 PM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 12:10 PM 2/25/2010 -0500, Olemis Lang wrote:
>>
>> 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 ?
>
> Yes - it also retrieves any testing-specific dependencies (per the
> "tests_require" setup() argument), so that if you use another testing
> library like py.test or nose, it can be used instead.
>
>
>> 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)
>
> In that case, you may want to simply use the setuptools trunk version
> (setuptools==dev), which supports a test_runner setup() argument to the test
> command.  ;-)
>

Ooops ! Almost nothing to do then, and I can happily add setuptools to
my list to get a barely minimal build script for CI.

Thnx veeeery veeery much for your veeeery useful reply !

;o)

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Regards,

Olemis.

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