runtests.py from numpy

[rainwoodman]

I recall it has been messy to use py.test when the package needs to be recompiled/reinstalled. One can survive, but using numpy's runtest.py will avoid a lot of background noise.

[kbarbary]

This would be super useful to add to the readme as a pointer, but I think we should leave it out of the repo. The intent here is not to have this be a ready-to-use template, but rather an example for undestanding how the moving pieces fit together. To that end, simpler and shorter is better.

[rainwoodman]

Sure. Plus the default runtests.py in numpy doesn't work for platform independent packages (installing to lib not lib64).

Additionally, I recall setup.py here didn't have some needed flags.

Finally, I forget if there was a decision about the find_version() trick?