[py-dev] pytest news: plugins, pycon, release-separation

[holger krekel]

Hi folks, 

some good news.  as those glimpsing at pytest svn-commits know
i am heavily working on a new plugin architecture.  I am
really happy about it as those also following me on my
brand-new twitter account (hpk42) might guess.  

Around Pycon i am giving a tutorial about advanced testing
topics including cross-platform distributed testing and 
writing plugins and i plan to talk in detil about the new and 
much improved ways of doing things. Here is the status: 

* Terminal reporting is now a nice self-contained plugin
* there is a new "xfail" plugin, inspired by SimPy to mark 
  test functions as "expected to fail" and report specially 
* a "poccoo" plugin for sending test failures to http://paste.pocoo.org
* new plugins for managing setup/teardown of application state, 
  using a turns-out-to-work-great new mechanism 
  which i guess nosetests might imitate at some point :) 

Regarding the next release i consider doing the following: 

* open two google-code projects "pytest" and "pylib" 
  with their svn repos remaining at codespeak (where
  many projects share one respository - i prefer that)

* move current py/test/ to its own "pytest/" root project 
  and depend on the py lib for install. 

* aim to do two alpha releases, 
  pytest-1.0 alpha and py lib 1.0 alpha (containing the rest)

What do you think?  I am unfamiliar with commoditized 
code hosting and consider using google code.  I'd probably
like to also have an issue tracker for pytest.  Any
comments/recommendations?  Would someone be up
for co-admining such a project?  

Meanwhile i am finishing up the pytestplugins branch
for merge to trunk, stay tuned :)

cheers & have fun,
hope to meet some of you at Pycon, 
holger

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