On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:25:52PM +0100, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Floris Bruynooghe > <floris.bruynoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Tarek > > > > On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 06:13:21PM +0100, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > >> Besides the PEP-related features, I would like to add some tiny > >> features in Distutils for Python 2.7 before the alpha stage is over : > >> > >> - a test command, that just uses the new unittest discovery to run > >> unittest-compatible tests. > > > > Will it be easy to change this to use py.test or nose? Or will that > > just be the normal command overriding mechanism? > > Are you referring to Setuptools' test_suite option ?
No, since I don't know this option. > Distutils test command could have a similar mechanism, but without the > auto-installation machinery that comes with Setuptools' one, or the > entry points. e.g. running test will not install a third-party > package, and will not do a plugin discovery. So one may pass the name > of a module or method, like "nose.collector" for delegating the test > collecting. Auto-installation definitely seems crazy. But delegating the test collecting and test run might be sensible. I was just wondering for the case where the package developer uses nose or py.test and a user just goes for the default "python setup.py test" which then could produce strange and hard to understand errors. So by allowing the developer to specify e.g. py.test as test collector/runner the users would either have the correct test runner installed and it works, or would get a meaningful error message like "py.test testrunner missing". > But is there a real use case for that ? I mean, you use Nose, can't > you just run nosetests in the root ? Sure, but by making it built into distutils (which is a good thing btw) users will use it even if the developer uses notetests. Because no one reads the README's. ;-) > Or is this for avoing a PATH manipulation on win32 systems ? where > sys.prefix+/Scripts is not in PATH. No idea what specific windows problems would be, sorry. Regards Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
