recipes as tests, test-mode

[wolfv]

It would be great if recipes could also act as first-class "test" scripts that people use in CI to test their packages. That would allow users to only use one source of truth for testing & releasing.

To make this happen, I propose boa test

with boa test, boa would skip all logic wrt to relocation and packaging, and just build the recipe, then install the test requirements and run the things from the test section.

[beckermr]

See this: https://conda-forge.org/docs/user/ci-skeleton.html

[wolfv]

thanks @beckermr didn't see this before! Very cool