On Wednesday 03 September 2008, Tres Seaver wrote:
I'm not volunteering to write it, but it strikes me as odd that folks haven't morphed zc.buildout (and / or associated recipes) to use this field. I *did* write a setuptools add on which saved the 'tests_require' info into the EGG_INFO directory: that package could be used to capture the metadata during installation of packages, for consumption by a testrunner later.
It might be that nobody was aware of this. The last discussion I read ended in "EGG_INFO does not record the test_require data". This is good news. I think the people most interested in stripping dependencies should add a feature to zc.buildout making this info usable as a first step. Once an example has been given on how to use this new pattern, packages can be quickly updated to use it. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter Web Software Design, Development and Training Google me. "Zope Stephan Richter"