[Distutils] setup.py test doesn't honor --find-links

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:23 AM 3/14/2006 -0500, Tres Seaver wrote:
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>Can we extend the test command (deriving from easy_install, I guess,
>instead of Command), to take the same options it does?

I don't think that approach is a good idea, as it's more complex and isn't 
orthogonal to other setuptools features that install eggs for build 
purposes (e.g. setup_requires).  It would probably be better to implement 
the "dependency_links" feature described here:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2005-October/005209.html

and make it be used by the setuptools.dist.Distribution class's 
"fetch_build_egg()" method, which is used for both setup_requires and 
tests_require.

I've left that feature open for a while in the hopes that it would provide 
some enterprising soul with an easy project to learn about extending 
setuptools, as it's mostly pretty shallow to implement.  The only part such 
an enterprising party might need help with is the bit that touches 
easy_install; the rest should be a matter of just copying existing entry 
points defined in setuptools' setup.py.