Re: Best practice for test(s) directories?
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Kibi!
>
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 20:13, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I'm wondering whether there's a preferred place where to drop the
>> test(s) directory. I don't really know whether to choose
>> /usr/share/python-support/$package/test(s)
>> or
>> /usr/share/$package/test(s).
>>
>> Since it isn't really needed for the module to correctly work, I'd be
>> tempted to keep it out of python-support's paths, and to keep it under
>> /usr/share/$package instead, but what do you think?
>
> Well, since tests are something not needed for the module to work and
> they provide a sort of documentation of the module itself, I usually
> install them as examples under /usr/share/doc/$pkg/examples (as
> suggested by Piotr and/or Bernd, IIRC). Just my 2 cc :)
Yeah, but then you also need to disable compressing them, otherwise
they won't be immediatelly useful.
Ondrej
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