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[Python-Dev] Python Language Summit at PyCon: Agenda

Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Mon Mar 4 21:40:43 CET 2013 
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Mar 04, 2013, at 03:02 PM, Daniel Holth wrote:
>
>>setup.py's setup(test_suite="x")... not sure if this is a distutils or
>>setuptools feature. PEP 426 has an extension mechanism that could do
>>the job.
>
> Shouldn't "testing" be a first order feature?

Unfortunately there are so many potential first-order features that
we've had to leave some out in order to save time. "How to run the
tests" is not something that you need to know when searching PyPI for
a distribution and its dependencies.
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