Re: Questions about including tests/ directory into package
> packages=find_packages("src"),
>
> Setuptools will only find "tinyalign" under the "src" folder, as a
> python module to package, which is why that's the only thing that is
> going to be packaged.
>
> IMO, the best approach to this problem is to convince upstream to move
> their tests folder into the Python package folder. Best is even to make
> upstream get rid of the "src" folder, rename that one "tinyalign" and
> put the tests folder in it. In other words, make upstream do:
that's not correct: the "src" directory is a very well know
best-practice (you can google for it, if you need references),
intended to avoid situations where "import mymodule" will have
inconsistent results depending on where you run that command and easy
of testing.
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