[Python-Dev] Python Language Summit at PyCon: Agenda (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Mon Mar 4 23:04:13 CET 2013

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at 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 <barry at python.org> wrote: >> On Mar 04, 2013, at 03:02 PM, Daniel Holth wrote: >> >>>setup.py's setup(testsuite="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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20130304/40f1498d/attachment.html>

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