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

[Donald Stufft]

On October 6, 2015 at 6:18:32 AM, David Cournapeau (cournape at gmail.com) wrote:
> > The significant number is not so relevant if you buy the argument 
> that it is useful to downstream packagers: it may be a few users, 
> but those are crucial.
> 
> I also forgot to mention that the ability to test something without 
> building is crucial when you want to distribute binaries.

Is it actually useful to them? None of the Linux downstreams I know of have
ever mentioned a preference for it. As far as I know, the only preference
they've ever expressed to me is that the tests are included in the sdist.

FreeBSD relies on ``python setup.py test`` as it's preferred test invocation,
so it apparently doesn't find it useful either.

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