[pytest-dev] preparing a set of breaking changes

[Dan Nealschneider]

Ohhh removal of yield tests is great. I think I have a memory-use reduction
commit that broke for yield tests :)

On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 5:40 AM, Floris Bruynooghe <flub at devork.be> wrote:

> Hi Ronny,
>
> On Sun 08 Apr 2018 at 12:28 +0200, RonnyPfannschmidt wrote:
> > i wold like to get started with a long needed spring cleaning of things
> > that are unfixable stange/broken since dozens of years
> >
> > * removal of yield tests, ever since collection and test running are no
> > longer connected, their setupstate has been fundamentally broken for
> > anything but test so simple, one should use parametrize
>
> Sounds good!  Do we already have deprecation warnings for this?  If not
> should we add them ASAP?
>
> > * removal of the pytest namespace hook and setting up the pytest config
> > in a way that is actially correct on xdist (currently pytest-xdist is
> > unable to create config objects on workers in a consistent manner,
> > and we leak data in strange ways
>
> I guess pytest_namespace was nice for internal plugins but does not
> really scale to many external plugins.  I used to be against this but
> maybe you're right.  Anyway, need to start deprecating this right away
> if we want to do this!
>
> > * removal of the dozns and dozens of compat properties/hackish aliases
> > across the codebase
>
> Sounds great, modulo the deprecation warnings thing.
>
> >   -> getting rid of customclasses on collectors
> > * after the mark merge: introduce an actual FunctionDefinition node
> > that's visible in the collection tree and ensure metafunc uses that as
> > base for parameterization,
> > * detangle node construction - the amount of spaghetti, in particular
> > wrt sessions, fs collectors & co has an unbearable amount of stones in
> > it for unit and functional testing
>
> This all sounds worthwhile.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Floris
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