[Distutils] Where should I put tests when packaging python modules?

[David Cournapeau]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Ionel Cristian Mărieș <contact at ionelmc.ro>
wrote:

>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>
> wrote:
>
>> They should be inside the module. That way, you can check an installed
>> module is ok by running e.g. "python -m mypackage.tests". Any other
>> choice makes testing installed modules more cumbersome.
>>
>
> ​Does that really make sense? I haven't heard of any user actually running
> tests​
> that way. To be honest I haven't ever ran Python's own tests suite as part
> of a user installation.
>

It makes a lot of sense for downstream packagers. Allowing testing
installed packages is also the simplest way to enable testing on target
machines which are different from the build machines.

David
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