On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote:
> On Mar 04, 2013, at 03:40 PM, Daniel Holth wrote: > > >On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > >> On Mar 04, 2013, at 03:02 PM, Daniel Holth wrote: > >> > >>>setup.py's setup(test_suite="x")... not sure if this is a distutils or > >>>setuptools feature. PEP 426 has an extension mechanism that could do > >>>the job. > >> > >> Shouldn't "testing" be a first order feature? > > > >Unfortunately there are so many potential first-order features that > >we've had to leave some out in order to save time. "How to run the > >tests" is not something that you need to know when searching PyPI for > >a distribution and its dependencies. > > Although "has unittests that I can run" might be a deciding factor of > which of > the many implementations of a particular feature you might choose. > Sure, but that has nothing to do with programmatic package discovery. That's something you will have to do as a person in making a qualitative decision along the same lines as API design. Flipping a bit in a config file saying "I have tests" doesn't say much beyond you flipped a bit, e.g. no idea on coverage, quality, etc.
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