Testing in a Conda development environment

[oyamad]

There are some issues on testing by following the Wiki page Creating a Conda development environment.
I may be missing some important points, but let me report them anyway.

1. Should Step 4 come before Step 3?

2. In order to execute unit testing, I had to do conda install also for

   • pytables
   • numba
   • statsmodels

   It would be helpful if this is mentioned in the Wiki page.

   (Actually, I first tried to do testing by using virtualenv on the machine with python installed via a distribution different from anaconda, but it was quite messy to install some numba related stuff, and I gave up this time.)

3. I first installed quantecon into the site-packages directory (without using -e in pip install /PATH/TO/LOCAL/CLONE/quant-econ), but the file "matlab_quad.mat" in tests/data was not installed. Is it as supposed?

[davidrpugh]

@oyamad

Thanks for feedback. I was the original author of the conda environment script. You are definitely correct that the extra dependencies need to be added to the wiki page as they are required in order to run the tests.

I will have a look at your other comments and get back to you.

[jstac]

@oyamad

Thanks for this. I've simplified the instructions and rearranged them according to the points you raised.

https://github.com/jstac/quant-econ/wiki/Creating-a-Conda-development-environment

I've kept the discussion minimal since pages like this have to be maintained and the information is easy to google for.