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

[P.J. Eby]

At 07:22 PM 3/1/2010 +0000, Chris Withers wrote:
>P.J. Eby 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.)
>
>...which is all pretty grim. If you use this with other packaging 
>tools, like, say, buildout, the testing dependencies just get dumped 
>into your buildout, which is a bit yucky to put it mildly.
>
>How about putting them where other eggs get put but only making them 
>available for the tests?
>
>Failing that, how about putting them somewhere temporary?

They *are* somewhere temporary.  Buildout's not going to install them 
from the setup.py directory, and neither will anything else.