On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 17:19, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jan 24, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Michael Foord wrote: >> It isn't just unittest, it seems that all *test packages* are in their >> respective package and not Lib/test except for the json module where Raymond >> already moved the tests: >> >> distutils/tests >> email/test >> ctypes/test >> importlib/test >> lib2to3/tests >> sqlite3/test >> tkinter/test >> >> So I'm a little confused as to why the focus on the *unittest* test suite. > > > There's not a focus on unittest. Importlib should also move under Lib/test > and when email is ready, it too should fully join the organization of > the overall project (Doc, Lib, Lib/test, Modules, Objects, Tools).
Just to clarify my position since importlib keeps getting brought up as an example, I'm fine with a move but I won't be putting the work in to do the move if there is actually consensus to make this a stdlib-wide policy. And I am assuming that the directory will be moved wholesale to Lib/test/importlib (with proper fixes for any relative imports) along with verification that importlib.test.__main__ continues to work (naming it test.importlib_tests seems rather redundant compared to test.importlib). While I'm for consistency, obviously a trend was started by ctypes and sqlite3 that the rest of us who created full packages followed up to this point. If we move some modules and not others purely because some distros choose not to ship e.g., ctypes and sqlite3, that will get annoying w/o some very clear explanation/delineation as to why some packages have a special rule to follow (I'm guessing "packages that have external dependencies" would be it). _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
