[pytest-dev] plugin status page

[Florian Schulze]

>>> A very interesting bit will be the "2.4.2 compat" and "dev" compat
>>>> <snip>
>>> 
>> 
>> Some late night quick hacking and I have come up with this proof of concept:
>> 
>> https://www.travis-ci.org/nicoddemus/pytest-plugs
>> 
>> As it is right now it serves only as a prove of concept, of course. The
>> idea is using travis to handle running things for us, driving it using a
>> script that downloads and run tests using tox. We can then collect json
>> information from that and POST those results back to devpi. Also we can use
>> its build matrix to test against different pytest versions, for example.
> 
> Hum, interesting.  Is this mainly to make use of travis-ci's build hosts?
> What is the advantage over just invoking "devpi test PLUGIN-NAME" from the
> script to automate the download/unpack/test/post-results steps?

I'd say the biggest advantage is to not execute stuff on your own server. They have to deal with that anyway.

Regards,
Florian Schulze