[Distutils] RFC: Standard Declaration of tests in eggs

[David Fraser]

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 proposal seeks to provide a way for
> automated tools to discover tests in distributions, including eggs, so
> that tests can be run or so that test runners can be automatically
> created to run the tests.
>
> Proposal
> ========
>
> This proposal aims to be extremely simple.  It has 2 parts:
>
> 1. A 'test_suite' entry point is defined.  An egg can provide zero or
>     more test_suite entry points.  These entry points will define
>     callable objects that can be called without arguments and that
>     return unittest test suites.
>   
How would this work if for example, you're using an alternative testing 
framework (like py.test) for your test?
It would be nice to be able to bootstrap it :-)
> 2. An optional 'tests' extra is defined.  When creating test runners
>     or dynamically loading distributions to load tests, any
>     distributions listed in extra requires for the 'tests' extra shall
>     be included in the working set for the test runner.
>   
Great, so at least the testing framework could be declared as a dependency

David