[py-dev] RFC pytest metadata store plugin

[Eduardo Schettino]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Ronny Pfannschmidt
<Ronny.Pfannschmidt at gmx.de> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i just got a basic item for a pytest caching plugin
>
>
> it would basically be a key-value store for test items/fspath items
>
> it should provide 2 objects as funcargs/py.test namesspace items
>
> path_meta
>    store key-values for the current fspath
> item_meta
>    store key-values for the current test item
>
> the need i have for such a feature is based in the speed issue of the
> codecheckers plugin, in particular pep8 is slow, and should be skipped
> in case of the file's mtime being less than the last run of the pep8
> check and had no issues

I solved this problem using a different tool. You might want to take a
look at "doit". it is more like a build-tool than a test runner.

http://python-doit.sourceforge.net/

Regards,
  Eduardo