[py-dev] pytest tmpdir / test directories

[Ronny Pfannschmidt]

On 06/06/2012 03:18 PM, holger krekel wrote:
> Hi Ronny, CCing py-dev again, was lost in between,
>
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 14:44 +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
>> On 06/06/2012 02:35 PM, holger krekel wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 08:18 +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
>>>> Hi Holger,
>>>>
>>>> i was thinking of just naming the current tmpdir funcarg testdatadir,
>>>> and implementing tmpdir in terms of testdatadir.ensure('tmpdir', dir=1)
>>>
>>> sure.  no immediate need to have this as a pytest core plugin, i guess.
>>>
>>
>> this as meant as a patch to pytests tmpdir plugin
>
> Ah, i slowly get it.  If you get to the habit of providing a full example
> of things at the beginning i might be able to understand things quicker.
>
> I am hesitant because it introduces another generic core funcarg which
> needs explanation and examples for relatively little benefit.  I'd
> rather suggest to think about extending reporting such that the paths
> to interesting files for a (failing) test are presented, like in your
> example the one to couchdb.dump

this would mean that each plugin needs a own way to manage test specific 
files + report them afterwards
as opposed to just droping them into a dir thats just meant for that

-- Ronny

>
> best,
> holger
>
>