[py-dev] pytest-cov multiple reports poll

holger krekel holger at merlinux.eu
Mon Jul 5 12:38:17 CEST 2010


Hi Meme, 

On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 20:17 +1000, meme dough wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I first wrote pytest-cov I thought that when dist=each it should
> output a coverage report for each slave.
> 
> However it seems that people want it to combine so they can see the
> overall coverage.
> 
> I am thinking of removing it to make it simpler and just always
> combine and produce single report for both dist=load and dist=each.
> 
> Would anyone not want this to happen?
> 
> :)

Not sure about the potential double negation - 
i think it makes sense to always combine reports. 
It's still possible to get target-specific coverage for 
a --dist-each situation by just specifying a 
single-target run.  And for --dist=load it hardly
makes sense to have separate random coverage. 

best,
holger



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