[pytest-dev] [RFC] some initial ideas for pylib-2.0

[holger krekel]

Hi Bruno,

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 17:32 -0200, Bruno Oliveira wrote:
> Hi Holger,
> 
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 5:01 PM, holger krekel <holger at merlinux.eu> wrote:
> >
> >
> > As far as pytest and tox are concerned i suggest (if anything) to reduce
> > usage and dependency on pylib to the point where it can be removed as a
> > dependency.  This way there is no breaking combination of py/pytest
> > ever.
> 
> In that direction, py.path would have to be moved to pytest as well?
> pytest's API exposes it.

Question is what APIs plugins (typically) use.  Depending on that 
it's probably not hard to experiment with exposing a compatibility
adaptor using pathlib within pytest core for use from plugins.

best,
holger