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Re: RFC: adding pytest as a supported test framework

Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>

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From: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
To: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-06-14T21:08:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 at 22:33, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not happy with the state of Perl, as it has made some MAJOR missteps along the way, particularly in the last 5 years. But can we dispel this strawman? There is a difference between "unpopular" and "unmaintained". The latest version of Perl was released May 20, 2024. The latest release of Test::More was April 25, 2024. Both are heavily used. Just not as heavily as they used to be. :)

Sorry, yes I exaggerated here. Looking at the last Perl changelog[1]
it's definitely getting more new features and improvements than I had
thought.

Test::More on the other hand, while indeed still maintained, it's
definitely not getting significant new feature development or
improvements[2]. Especially when comparing it to pytest[3].

[1]: https://perldoc.perl.org/perldelta
[2]: https://github.com/Test-More/test-more/blob/master/Changes
[3]: https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/changelog.html