[Python-Dev] built-in Python test runner (was: Python Language Summit at PyCon: Agenda)

[Lennart Regebro]

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Donald Stufft <donald.stufft at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't care much what that mechanism is, but I think the easiest way
> to get there is to tell people to extend distutils with a test command
> (or use Distribute) and perhaps add such a command in 3.4 that will do
> the unittest discover thingy. I remember looking into zope.testrunner
> hooking into that mechanism as well, but I don't remember what the
> outcome was.
>
> Doesn't setuptools/distribute already have a setup.py test command?

Yes, but distutils do not.

> That seems like the easiest way forward?

Yup. Although I can understand people if they want something that is
independent of packaging/distribution.

//Lennart