How are .files handled

[niemela]

Comments from @gkreitz (translated from Swedish):

.files should be copied into the working directory (of the submission and output validators...). When should that happen? Specifically, before or after static validation runs?

[Tagl]

The .files functionality is irrelevant for static validation since either those files you need for the test case would be included in the submission by the submitter, or with include, or provided with the static validator.
The static validation test case is defined in the testdata.yaml so no .files can be provided either.
Therefore, there is no before or after to consider.

We should probably clarify this though.

[niemela]

The .files functionality is irrelevant for static validation

Right, .files is part of the "input", i.e. for the "dynamic" validation.

[Tagl]

Can this be closed then or is there something else unanswered here? Due to #329 being present