[PROTON-1973] Allow proton-test to be run as a python module ("python -m proton_tests")

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: proton-c-0.27.0
• Component/s: python-binding
• Assignee: Andrew Stitcher
• Reporter: Andrew Stitcher
• Created: 27/Nov/18 20:42
• Updated: 02/Mar/19 23:35
• Resolved: 27/Nov/18 20:58

Description

It will simplify a number of deployment and testing scenarios if we can run the python tests simply as a module, rather than having to run the tests as a command.

Specifically it allows us to simply use 'python3 -m proton_tests' from the command line once the environment is set up rather than having to remember where the tests are.

This is also an improvement for a Windows install where the 'shebang' does not work at all.

It should also make an installable package with just the tests fairly simple  too.