Re: RFC: adding pytest as a supported test framework

Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>

From: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>

To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>

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: 2024-06-14T20:33:00Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 1:08 PM Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
wrote:

> But Perl is at the next level of unmaintained infrastructure. It is
> actually clear how you can contribute to it, but still no new
> community members actually want to contribute to it. Also, it's not
> only unmaintained by us but it's also pretty much unmaintained by the
> upstream community.

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. :)

Cheers,
Greg