kszucs commented on pull request #7334: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7334#issuecomment-638315649
> > from the packages (I'd rather keep them though) please defer it to another pull request because we need to update more CI scripts. > > I'm fine with debating whether to ship the tests separately. > > The people who benefit from being able to do `pytest --pyargs pyarrow` are primarily the developers (i.e. us), not the users. If we want to enable users to run the test suite locally on their machine, we should IMHO instead implement a function that downloads the tests along with the test dependencies (e.g. the testing data repos) and then executes them. If say < 0.1% of users ever need to do this, why should > 99.9% of users bear the burden? Hard to disagree with that argument. Either way I'm deferring it to a follow-up because it'll involve quite some CI and packaging updates. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
