Re: [Distutils] RFC: Standard Declaration of tests in eggs

2007-01-22 Thread Jim Fulton
Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 01:11 PM 1/5/2007 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: Phillip J. Eby wrote: ... Why can't an entry point invoke a test loader itself? This seems much simpler and more straightforward to me. Because that requires you to write code for something that can adequately be expressed

Re: [Distutils] RFC: Standard Declaration of tests in eggs

2007-01-22 Thread Jim Fulton
Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 10:14 AM 1/22/2007 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: I'd rather let people use whatever framework they want to do this and to control this from Python. The approach I suggested certainly allows that to happen, I know. That's why I wouldn't object to it. Jim -- Jim Fulton

Re: [Distutils] RFC: Standard Declaration of tests in eggs

2007-01-18 Thread jason pellerin
Hello all. I'm the primary author of nose. Michal Kwiatkowski was kind enough to point me to this thread, and I wanted to chime in with a few questions and answers. Apologies for pulling things from various parts of the thread together, I didn't want to send multiple replies all covering the same

Re: [Distutils] RFC: Standard Declaration of tests in eggs

2007-01-08 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 06:05 PM 1/8/2007 +, John J Lee wrote: On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, David Fraser wrote: [...] So I need to go and code a test enumerator for py.test to discover tests within eggs (which is possible) [...] Or (for new code) use nose, which AIUI is intended to be pretty much py.test implemented

Re: [Distutils] RFC: Standard Declaration of tests in eggs

2007-01-05 Thread Jim Fulton
David Fraser wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: Here is a rough draft proposal for declaring tests in eggs: Introduction Software packages should have automated tests. Consumers of packages will often want to run these tests. Tools should be able to do this automatically. This

Re: [Distutils] RFC: Standard Declaration of tests in eggs

2007-01-05 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 08:46 AM 1/5/2007 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: Here is a rough draft proposal for declaring tests in eggs: Introduction Software packages should have automated tests. Consumers of packages will often want to run these tests. Tools should be able to do this automatically. This

Re: [Distutils] RFC: Standard Declaration of tests in eggs

2007-01-05 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 01:11 PM 1/5/2007 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: Phillip J. Eby wrote: ... Why can't an entry point invoke a test loader itself? This seems much simpler and more straightforward to me. Because that requires you to write code for something that can adequately be expressed through an existing