I would say that there is no specific timeline, I would urge everyone to do it sooner rather than later, because even though we haven't *removed* it, we're also mostly not fixing it if it's broken in some way (unless it gets improved incidentally due to general codebase improvements). One prominent example of this is that at least as of somewhat recently, `test_requires` dependencies were installed with `easy_install`, which has many problems - one of which is that it doesn't respect `python_requires`. That will become increasingly important in a post-Python 2 world, and even if we don't actively remove `setup.py test`, you may be broken unexpectedly at any time. As for timeline, my guess is we won't do it earlier than around October 2020, since we only started emitting the warnings in October 2019. That is by no means a hard deadline - if it becomes a burden to maintain it or if we find some flaw that makes us decide that it's doing more harm than good, we'll probably remove it before then. Best of luck with the migrations, thanks for your efforts! Best, Paul On 1/14/20 7:15 PM, bmw@eff.org wrote:
Is there an ETA for when setuptools is going to break the test subcommand? It would be useful for me to know how long I have to stop using tests_require and to help OS package maintainers migrate to a new way of running tests.
Thanks for any info!
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