Exclude tests folder from published package

[thibaudcolas]

I have noticed while publishing v0.6.0 that the test site’s test-static and test-media folders aren’t ignored as part of building the package’s distribution artifacts (python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel). This makes it a bit too easy to publish tens of MBs of test audio and video files in the package source.

Those folders need to be ignored, and I think we might as well not publish the whole of the tests folder.

[Scotchester]

Change looks good, but will this work for the wheel, as well? I'm not super familiar with MANIFEST.in files, but their documentation only refers to them affecting sdists.

[zerolab]

@Scotchester you correctly point out this does not work for wheels. pypa/setuptools#511 (comment) summarises the issue and the tl;dr is that there is no proper way per se.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/32482591/201316 suggests adding packages=find_packages(exclude=["tests"]), to setup.py

[thibaudcolas]

Thank you both. I tried packages=find_packages(exclude=["tests"]) and couldn’t get it to work. It feels a bit underwhelming to ignore tests for source dists only, but I guess it’s better than nothing, so I’ll merge this as-is and open an issue.