Imo, it creates more problems than profits. If someone wants to change the code and run tests -> use git repositories. Prepared python package is not about this.
2018-02-19 17:57 GMT+02:00 Doug Hellmann <[email protected]>: > IIRC we started doing that so that consumers building their own packages > can run the tests for the packages easily. I don't know how many people > are doing that, and apparently at least some downstream consumers aren't > packaging everything anyway so they couldn't run those tests. > > Excerpts from Andrey Kurilin's message of 2018-02-19 17:39:11 +0200: > > Can someone explain me the reason for including "tests" module into > > packages? > > > > 2018-02-19 17:00 GMT+02:00 Michael Bayer <[email protected]>: > > > > > Hi list - > > > > > > Apparently Cinder was misled by my deprecations within the > > > oslo_db.sqlalchemy.test_base package of DbFixture and DbTestCase, and > > > in https://review.openstack.org/#/c/522290/ the assumption was made > > > that these should be imported from oslo_db.tests.sqlalchemy. This > > > is an immense mistake on my part that I did not expect people to go > > > looking for the same names elsewhere in private packages and now we > > > have a serious downstream issue as these modules are not packaged, as > > > well as the possibility that the oslo_db.tests. package is now locked > > > in time and I have to add deprecations there also. > > > > > > If anyone knows of projects (or feels like helping me search) that are > > > importing *anything* from oslo_db.tests these must be reverted ASAP. > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > ______________ > > > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > > > Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject: > unsubscribe > > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > -- Best regards, Andrey Kurilin.
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