Re: RFC: adding pytest as a supported test framework

On 2024-06-12 We 11:50, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2024-06-11 07:28:23 -0700, Jacob Champion wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 1:04 PM Andres Freund<andres@anarazel.de>  wrote:
>>> Just for context for the rest the email: I think we desperately need to move
>>> off perl for tests. The infrastructure around our testing is basically
>>> unmaintained and just about nobody that started doing dev stuff in the last 10
>>> years learned perl.
>> Okay. Personally, I'm going to try to stay out of discussions around
>> subtracting Perl and focus on adding Python, for a bunch of different
>> reasons:
> I think I might have formulated my paragraph above badly - I didn't mean that
> we should move away from perl tests tomorrow,


OK, glad we're on the same page there. Let's move on.


> but that we need a path forward
> that allows folks to write tests without perl.


OK, although to be honest I'm more interested in fixing some of the 
things that have made testing with perl a pain, especially the IPC::Run 
pump stuff.


cheers


andrew

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