[pytest-dev] the sorry state of pylib tests and pylib

[holger krekel]

Hi Ronny, everyone,

i had actually replied to this mail a few days ago but it got lost due to my playing around with new mail setups and clients :/

So here is my 2cent collection IIRC:

- IMO py is in low-effort maintenance mode.  Removing anything is likely
  to break things, increase maintenance effort -> not worth it.

- pylib could in tox.ini for testing just depend on pytest<3.0 and be done with it.  That's probably good enough for the next 1-2 years.

- meanwhile pytest can rather aim to vendor/get rid of things like we did with py.code.  A big thing probably here is py.path.local usage.  Maybe writing a wrapper around pathlib with py.path.local API would be a good not too cumbersome strategy because it doesn't touch much code.

best,
holger



On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 14:15 +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> while fixing up some pylib tests i noticed a set of massive issues
> 
> a) all py.code related tests are completely broken on pytest 3.0
> 
> b) the svn related tests are completely broken and outdated (can we kill
> it?)
> 
> c) depending on environment there are massive issues with pylib path
> encodings
> 
> as far as i can tell thats just scratching the surface
> 
> 
> im not yet sure what to do about it, but some thing has to be done ^^
> 
> 
> -- Ronny
> 
> 
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