[RFC] why for bzrlib.__init__.py has function test_suite()?

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 15:14 +0300, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
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> bzrlib.__init__.py has function test_suite():
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> def test_suite():
>     import tests
>     return tests.test_suite()
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> Why for it needed?

Its the entry point to return the entire test suite.

> Annotation point me back to the end of 2005 year.
> Robert and John touched this code last time.
> 
> I'd like to remove this code, because I want to not
> include our test suite to standalone bzr.exe.
> Our current test suite has size about of 3MB
> (of 6.5MB total size of bzrlib). I expect that resulting
> standalone installer without test suite will reduce
> his size off 500KB-1MB.

I dont think removing that entry point is necessary. You can remove the
entire test suite without removing that function; and if we've fixed our
bugs about interdependencies between some modules and the tests/
packages that should be just fine.

-Rob
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