First of all thanks for spotting this bug. >> The bad news is that we have some breakages. >> >> 'python-py' fails with: >> >> TypeError: py.test.__dict__ is not a dictionary >> >> Which seems similar to >> >> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/12565#issuecomment-174165144
The relevant comment is https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/12565#issuecomment-174196194: Starting with version 18.4, setuptools will always try to execute a test-suite (see https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history.html#id186), which will fail if there is none. So the solution is to disable the test-suite for python-py, as there is no test-suite which can be run via "setup.py test". For testing I added "python-setuptools" (18.3.1) as native input. This made the "check" phase run "0 tests" for python2-py and no tests at al for python-py. (This package includes a test-suite (see tox.ini), but this test-suite requires py.test, with itself requires python-py. So I suggest to disable it.) Our Python (3.5.2) comes with setuptools 20.10.1. > Yikes, I had hoped to avoid addressing that Nix issue and the humongous > "fix" for a while longer: > > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/12552 This puill-request is huge, but for setuptools, it comes down that they updated from 18.2 to 19.4. -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |