Re: should I include tests in the package?

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On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:50 AM, "Germán A. Racca"
<german.racca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi list:
>
> I'm the packager of APLpy: http://aplpy.github.com/
>
> I'm going to update it to a new version, which comes with a set of tests,
> but I'm not sure about what to do with them. I asked upstream and the answer
> is:
>
> "The tests are there for us to diagnose any issues related to specific
> dependency versions and platforms, and to make sure that we don't
> break anything when making changes. It would be useful if you include
> them so that we can ask users to run them if they are having issues we
> can't reproduce, but you don't need to run the tests as part of the
> build/setup."
>
> I'm still not sure. Should I include them in the package?

Unless they impose huge build deps or something, run them in make check.

-J

> Have a nice day,
> Germán.
>
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