[SciPy-dev] Problems packaging GSoC statsmodels code as scikit

[Skipper Seabold]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Robert Kern<robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 19:09, Skipper Seabold<jsseabold at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have been trying to package the models code using the scikits
>> template and have run into a problem.
>>
>> On linux, both Kubuntu 64-bit and openSuSE 32-bit, I can install the
>> package (sudo python setup.py install), but when I do
>>
>> from scikits import statsmodels
>> statsmodels.test()
>
> Known issue. setuptools installs files with the executable flag set
> (for quite silly reasons), and nosetests refuses to load such files by
> default. nose 0.11 has an option to disable that behavior.
>

This is the case, of course.  I'm just not clear on what the
workaround is for the statsmodels tests (ie., not running nosetests on
the command line).  Do I need to change the tests to inherit from
np.testing.TestCase?  If so, then I think I need to move all of the
__init__ setup of the tests to a setup method.  I don't see any
special configuration options in any of the other scikits.

Skipper