On Sep 12, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Joey Hess wrote: >How standard? Ie, I picked a random python package,aand: > >joey@gnu:~/tmp/python-mpd-0.3.0>python setup.py test >usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...] > or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...] > or: setup.py --help-commands > or: setup.py cmd --help > >error: invalid command 'test'
Right, setuptools/distutils supports it by default, though it requires a `test_suite` parameter in setup(). >So I picked another one: > >joey@gnu:~/tmp/jabber.py-0.5.0>python setup.py test >usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...] > or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...] > or: setup.py --help-commands > or: setup.py cmd --help > >error: invalid command 'test' > >So I tried one more: > >joey@gnu:~/tmp/python-memcache-1.47>python setup.py test >running test > >Well, finally. (Not much of a test suite tho.) > >Perhaps you meant to say that's the standard for a python package >that uses setuptools, rather than distutils? Or something more >complicated. It'll also be supported by default in `packaging` (for >=Python 3.3) and distutils2 for older Pythons. I've been trying to push for this cli as the standard for Python modules, and I think it's gaining some traction. It'll gain more momentum once packaging/distutils2 is more widespread I think. Since there currently *is* no standard for Python libraries, I think this one makes the most sense. http://lists.idyll.org/pipermail/testing-in-python/2010-February/002659.html >> dh_auto_test should support this for Python packages. It might also >> make sense to use this in preference to running 'make check' even if >> there is a Makefile present. > >FWIW, dh_auto_test never runs make test/check on python packages. Ah, so it's only if there's a Makefile present, regardless of whether it's a Python package, that `make test` gets run. Ideally, once dh_auto_test knows about `python setup.py test`, even if there's a Makefile it would run setup.py first, possibly with some additional logic to check if the setup supports it or not (grep'ing for `test_suite` might be an easy check). Cheers, -Barry P.S. try flufl.enum for a package that supports it. Take a look at debian/rules for the ickiness I had to add to make it work. ;)
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