Hey Marius! Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> writes:
> This was a surprisingly deep rabbit hole that ended pretty > unsatisfactory with commit 51d42caa94515f43d677bdd76d53bf8bb8c7bc4e. > > According to a comment in the package definition, the tests were never > supposed to run, so in the end they were just disabled. > > I discovered a pattern that I hadn't seen yet in the Python ecosystem: > orator and many of its dependencies are no longer using setup.py. > Instead they have a file called pyproject.toml and calls out to a tool > called "poetry" to create distribution tarballs, run tests, etc; and it > apparently also creates a setup.py for the PyPI distribution. Interesting! > I did not study poetry enough to figure out how it works, but we might > need a poetry-build-system or some such if the trend continues. Mainly > because all packages using it seem to be stripping tests from the PyPI > release! :-/ Yeah. Or make the python-build-system smart at detecting many situations (as we discussed on IRC today such as guessing how to run the test suite). Thanks for fixing it! Maxim
