[pytest-dev] (new) pytest plugins / note to plugin authors

[holger krekel]

Hi Bruno,

On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 12:43 -0300, Bruno Oliveira wrote:
> Hi Holger,
> 
> I would be glad to help on that front, if I can. :)

great to hear!

> Did you give any thoughts on how this could be done?

note sure in detail but i guess each plugin could be presented
with this information:

pluginname and latest version, pypi link, maintainer/author, repository link, 
one-line description, test status py27/py33 

and some way to re-generate this information (especially the test status).
I guess we could start with considering plugins that have a tox.ini
and then write a script to download the plugin, unpack it, run tests etc.

The other part is how to present this info, but e.g. a CSV file
can be rendered by sphinx and the main docs could include it
or we make a separate page if need be.

thanks for considering to help!

holger

> Cheers,
> 
> 
> 
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> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:09 AM, holger krekel <holger at merlinux.eu> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I just did three pytest plugin releases to get out a few minor
> > fixes and improvements. see below.  As far as i am aware most
> > existing plugins (as well as the new releases here) should be
> > compatible to pytest-2.4.2.  Some plugins like pytest-capturelog
> > have seen their latest release three years ago but remain functional.
> > A good sign that the plugin system is reasonable i guess.
> >
> > If someone wants to help with organizing plugin compatibility
> > tests and maintaining a status page, i'd really appreciate that.
> > With over 50 existing plugins it's not easy to stay on top.
> > The current pytest.org page is only a start:
> >
> >     http://pytest.org/latest/plugins.html#extplugins
> >
> > and here is the full pypi list:
> >
> >
> > https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=pytest-&submit=search
> >
> > there are also some github/bitbucket-only plugins, in addition.
> >
> > And finally a note to plugin authors: please be subscribed
> > to pytest-dev and post new plugin releases here.
> >
> > best,
> > holger
> >
> > pytest-xdist-1.9:
> >
> > - changed LICENSE to MIT
> >
> > - fix duplicate reported test ids with --looponfailing
> >   (thanks Jeremy Thurgood)
> >
> > - fix pytest issue41: re-run tests on all file changes, not just
> >   randomly select ones like .py/.c.
> >
> > - fix pytest issue347: slaves running on top of Python3.2
> >   will set PYTHONDONTWRITEYBTECODE to 1 to avoid import concurrency
> >   bugs.
> >
> > pytest-xprocess-0.8:
> >
> > - support python3 (tested on linux/win32)
> >
> > - split out pytest independent process support into xprocess.py
> >
> > - add info.kill() method and some smaller refactoring
> >
> > - fix various windows related Popen / killing details
> >
> > - add tests
> >
> >
> > pytest-pep8:
> >
> > - use pytest-2.4.2 node.add_marker() API for adding "pep8" marker
> >
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