[Python-Dev] the history of tests being inside Lib/ in Python

[Ned Deily]

In article 
<CAF-Rda-M5QL3bhzAcf2d=0U94Qdr_-u_KVPRai9HWZkHTKhUCg at mail.gmail.com>,
 Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:
> * The tests usually aren't even installed. The user can run them during
> installation, but once it goes through, tests are not copied into
> /usr/whatever...

That's not true across the board.  For instance, the python.org Mac OS X 
installers do install the tests "permanently" and, with the addition of 
the "-m test" (or "-m test.regrtest" in 2.7) command line options, the 
tests can be easily run at any time on the end user's system.  That's 
one of the reasons why it is important that additions and changes to the 
tests need to ensure that auxiliary directories and files are installed 
by the Makefile install targets and not just resident in the build 
directory.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org