[qmtest] Why is qmtest installed in such a non-standard way?

[Mark Mitchell]

--On Thursday, January 02, 2003 12:34:01 AM -0800 Nathaniel Smith 
<njs at uclink4.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> QMTest installs rather differently from every other Python library
> I've used; in particular, it uses a non-standard location, and
> requires some quirky environment variables to be set before it can be
> used.

That's probably a fair criticism, but QMTest is an application, not a
library.  I think it's reasonable to ask it to do a better job at being
a library.  We haven't done this because, well, it takes effort. :-)

Part of the reason for using XML as the default database format is to
allow people to build databases from any XML-generating tool -- including
ones that are *not* written in Python.

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