On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 5:35 AM, <distutils-sig-requ...@python.org> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 11:30:00 +0300 > Ionel Cristian M?rie? <cont...@ionelmc.ro> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >> >> > They should be inside the module. That way, you can check an installed >> > module is ok by running e.g. "python -m mypackage.tests". Any other >> > choice makes testing installed modules more cumbersome. >> > >> >> ?Does that really make sense? I haven't heard of any user actually running >> tests that way.
Numeric computing may be a special case because of its sensitivity to compiler/BLAS interactions but numpy and scipy support e.g. `numpy.test()` and Homebrew has received bug reports from people running them and getting unexpected results so I believe this is practiced and useful in some domains. Tim _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
