Avoid bundling tests in wheels
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Beautiful Soup |
Fix Committed
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Undecided
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Bug Description
*beautifulsoup* currently bundles the tests explicitly inside the wheel distributions: https:/
This matches the official recommendation for Python packaging as well (see https:/
> Wheels are meant to contain exactly what is to be installed,
> and nothing more. In particular, wheels should never include
> tests and documentation, while sdists commonly do.
OK, I'm convinced. Revision 0aacafe changes pyproject.toml to omit tests and test data in built wheels.