Testing an installed kiwisolver about kiwi HOT 5 CLOSED

Here's the same thing happening in the wheel-building repo:

• https://travis-ci.org/MacPython/kiwisolver-wheels/jobs/338136621#L616
• https://ci.appveyor.com/project/matthew-brett/kiwisolver-wheels/build/1.0.2/job/bmqksg167qgv56h1#L110

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Looks like you solved it in the matplotlib thread. kiwisolver does not package the tests with the library so you need to run them from the sources.

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I would say we worked around the problem, rather than solving it. I was just flagging it here because, for my own projects, I like to make it possible to run the tests on the installed package, for debugging and to reassure the user.

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For projects with multiple components and backends like matplotlib or numpy I agree that verifying that all parts work well together make sense, but for smaller projects I find that including the tests is not really necessary. If this is something you really need I can consider adding them to the release, but I am not convinced it is needed.

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I tend to ship them, because when a user says "it's not working" I can say "what do you get from a test run?". But if you don't think that's important, that's fine, the workaround is fine for the wheel building.

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