Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add new pytest for special cases

2016-11-02 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 31.10.2016 um 18:20 schrieb Leo Famulari: > Please check out Hartmut's wip-python-build-system branch :) I read > through the commits a couple days ago, and the general idea seems > reasonable, although I don't understand everything yet. Please feel free to ask. (Which reminds me that I wante

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add new pytest for special cases

2016-10-31 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 10:19:07AM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Leo Famulari writes: > > I'd really prefer to run the Borg tests, so I want to add a newer > > release of pytest and use it with Borg. > > > > I've been testing pytest upgrades locally, and there is some breakage, > > so I think we

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add new pytest for special cases

2016-10-31 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Leo Famulari writes: > We package version 2.7.3 of pytest, which was released in September > 2015. I guess that Python development moves very quickly, because there > are already some packages whose test suites require a newer version of > pytest. > > Notably, the most recent release of Borg, 1.

[PATCH 0/2] Add new pytest for special cases

2016-10-30 Thread Leo Famulari
We package version 2.7.3 of pytest, which was released in September 2015. I guess that Python development moves very quickly, because there are already some packages whose test suites require a newer version of pytest. Notably, the most recent release of Borg, 1.0.8, requires something called 'tmp