[Numpy-discussion] Release vs development testing.

[Charles R Harris]

On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 6:33 AM Julian Taylor <jtaylor.debian at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> On 12.05.19 14:58, Charles R Harris wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > NumPy currently distinguishes between release and development versions
> > when running tests. Is there a good reason to continue this practice? I
> > ask, because with the last pytest release it would be convenient to
> > always include `pytest.ini ` so that we can register markers. The
> > presence of `pytest.ini` is how we distinguish betweendevelopment from
> > release for testing purposes.
> >
>
> One difference between development and release builds was that in
> development releases numpy.testing throws errors on floating point
> exceptions while the release version it did not.
> If that is still the case removing the distinction could require a lot
> of changes in upstream test suites that are not regularly run against
> development builds.
>
> The motivation is not quite clear to me, can you please elaborate on
> what you want to do.
>

NumPy pytest testing is NumPy specific and not used downstream like our
nose testing framework was, so I don't see why that should affect other
projects. What motivates this question is that the new version of pytest
released yesterday raises warnings for non-registered markers,
`pytest.mark.slow` in particular, and that was causing CI failures. The
easiest way to register a mark is using `pytest.ini`, but we currently
don't include that in released wheels, only in source releases.

Chuck
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