On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 8:37:53 AM UTC+1, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
>
> On 2016-04-12 00:04, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote:
> > Dear Sage developers,
> >
> > It's quite common that optional doctests come in batch, typically when
> > documenting a method that is only available when a certain feature or
> > package is available.
>
> Let me add something here: often, not *every* test requires the optional
> package. It can happen that basic things like initializing and printing
> some object does not need any optional functionality. In this case, it
> is good to always run these tests. And having the module-level "#
> optional" goes against this.
>
perhaps a meaningful compromise would be test-wise #optional tags, per
test/example or per test/example block, i.e.
TESTS:
blah :: #optional - foo
bah :: # nothing optional needed here
....
EXAMPLES :: #optional - foo, bar
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