Re: When packaging a library, should I prevent its test suite from being packaged
On 9 September 2014 16:53, Konstantin Khomoutov
<flatworm@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Having the test suite packaged along with the code looks like having
> not much sense to me, so should I try to exclude this subdirectory from
> packaging? Is it considered a bad practice? I don't have much
> familiarity with Python, let alone packaging its libraries, so I'm not
> sure if removing such files will break the library or not and what
> seasoned Python packagers do in cases like this.
As a Python /user/, I would very much like it for the tests to be
installed along with a package when possible; this allows me to run
the tests on a particular system in order to verify that the
installation of the package is fully functional.
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