On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 7:27 AM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 3:56 PM Charles R Harris <
> charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 6:33 AM Julian Taylor <
>> jtaylor.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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>>> On 12.05.19 14:58, Charles R Harris wrote:
>>> > Hi All,
>>> >
>>> > NumPy currently distinguishes between release and development versions
>>> > when running tests. Is there a good reason to continue this practice? I
>>> > ask, because with the last pytest release it would be convenient to
>>> > always include `pytest.ini ` so that we can register markers. The
>>> > presence of `pytest.ini` is how we distinguish betweendevelopment from
>>> > release for testing purposes.
>>> >
>>>
>>> One difference between development and release builds was that in
>>> development releases numpy.testing throws errors on floating point
>>> exceptions while the release version it did not.
>>>
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> I'd prefer to keep this behavior. It's not clear to me if the proposal is
> to change the behavior or not.
>
> If that is still the case removing the distinction could require a lot
>>> of changes in upstream test suites that are not regularly run against
>>> development builds.
>>>
>>> The motivation is not quite clear to me, can you please elaborate on
>>> what you want to do.
>>>
>>
>> NumPy pytest testing is NumPy specific and not used downstream like our
>> nose testing framework was, so I don't see why that should affect other
>> projects. What motivates this question is that the new version of pytest
>> released yesterday raises warnings for non-registered markers,
>> `pytest.mark.slow` in particular, and that was causing CI failures. The
>> easiest way to register a mark is using `pytest.ini`, but we currently
>> don't include that in released wheels, only in source releases.
>>
>
> Adding a pytest.ini file in wheels should be perfectly fine I think,
>
>
It is the absence of pytest.ini that makes it a release, for that is the
file that turns warnings into errors.

Chuck
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