Re: [RFH] Running Python tests that require the source to be installed

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hi Timo,

On Fri, 2024-10-25 at 22:19 +0200, Timo Röhling wrote:
> I ran into this issue with old-style setuptools packages (i.e., 
> packages with a setup.py); AFAIK the entry_points mechanism needs 
> valid egg-info or dist-info metadata in the PYTHONPATH. My 
> workaround was
> 
> 
> export PYBUILD_BEFORE_TEST=\
>      {interpreter} setup.py egg_info; \
>      cp -r {dir}/src/*.egg-info {build_dir}
> 
> export PYBUILD_AFTER_TEST=\
>      rm -r {dir}/src/*.egg-info {build_dir}/*.egg-info

Thanks, this is what I was looking for. I will give this a try.

Adrian

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