On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Jon Ciesla <limburgher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:50 AM, "Germán A. Racca"
<german.racca(a)gmail.com> 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.
To more directly answer your question, yes, include and run tests
whenever possible. :)
-J
-J
> Have a nice day,
> Germán.
>
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