Hi Holgen,

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 10:12 AM, holger krekel <[email protected]> wrote:

> My comments and wishes (others may comment as well!):
>
> - i'd collapse NAME and VERSION columns to save space, i.e.
>   "pytest-bdd-0.6.1".
>
> - what about adding download numbers?
>
> - as to code organisation: you can leave it as is for now or (maybe
>   better) put all code and generated files into a dedicated directory


No problem, will work on those today. :)


> - we should try to collect repository locations. maybe parsing
>   for github/bitbucket urls would yield most of them automatically?
>   Maybe we need to add some manually.
>

May I ask why we would need the repository locations? I mean, to work on
the compatibility feature we can work directly with packages in pypi or
devpi...

A very interesting bit will be the "2.4.2 compat" and "dev" compat
> determination.  In fact, i think "devpi" should help with that although
> i guess i need to improve some things.  You can give using it a try
> with these steps:
>
>     pip install devpi-client
>     devpi use http://devpi.net/root/pypi
>     devpi test -e py27 pytest-pep8
>
> The last bit should download the pypi-version of pytest-pep8, unpack
> it and run tox for the "py27" environment and then post back test
> results (as a json file) to the devpi.net server. You can also ask about
> plugin "test" status:
>
>     devpi list pytest-pep8
>
> I just found out that this doesn't work for "pytest-flakes" yet
> although that does have a tox.ini.  need to look into what's going on.
> In principle, devpi-server (an instance of which you are using above),
> provides a lot of detailed test info as a json, see here for example:
>
>     http://devpi.net/+tests/6199353734615fde47d1fbfef1ebc737/toxresult
>
> The test results are stored as per the package MD5 at the moment.
> The whole test/list/json machinery of devpi needs some more work
> to become really nice, but it should already help as currently implemented,
> maybe best by using "devpi list" and filing feature requests against it :)
>
> For testing "development" versions, it should be enough to upload
> e.g. a "pytest-2.4.3.dev1" to a private index and then re-run the script
> that invokes something like the above devpi commands for all of the
> plugins.
>
> Now, for the plugins that don't have a tox.ini we could supply one
> out of band.  For this "devpi test" would grow an option like
> "--toxini=mytox.ini" and would use that instead of expecting one
> in the downloaded unpacked distribution file.  This tox.ini would probably
> just have a testenv that does "py.test --version" and "py.test --help"
> to see if something broke by just installing the plugin.
>

Interesting! Will give it a try today. Will keep you posted as things move
along.

Cheers,
Bruno.


> So much for now,
> holger
>
>
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