[pytest-dev] xdist: removing boxed with degraded backward compat

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

Hi Bruno,

its the other way around boxed jsut takes the fork using mess out of
xdist so i can drop that code

-- Ronny


Am 28.07.2017 um 17:59 schrieb Bruno Oliveira:
> Hey Ronny,
> 
> Does this new "pytest-boxed"(?) plugin depends on pytest-xdist? If it
> does I think it is just a matter of pinning that dependency as requiring
> a minimum of pytest-xdist >= 2 so users will get a version conflict
> error if they try to install incompatible versions (I'm assuming the
> pytest-xdist release without --boxed will be 2.0).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 12:50 PM RonnyPfannschmidt
> <opensource at ronnypfannschmidt.de
> <mailto:opensource at ronnypfannschmidt.de>> wrote:
> 
>     hi everyone,
> 
>     its finally time to take and remove xdists boxed mode,
> 
>     in order to prepare the removal i extracted it, but that creates one
>     clear issue,
> 
>     py.test messes up and has no way to protect against old xdist and boxed
>     both registering --boxed
> 
>     as such users in such a situation will get a completely horrible and
>     entirely useless error message
> 
>     i tried for a while to get boxed not to register its own option if xdist
>     is there and wants it as well,
>     but it seems impossible, in my own tests the plugin registered hook
>     triggers after addoption
> 
>     so i opted to simply opt out of the own option if the xdist.boxed module
>     is availiable
> 
>     -- Ronny
> 
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