| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: RFC: adding pytest as a supported test framework |
| Date: | 2024-06-13 20:32:53 |
| Message-ID: | 9c3feb23-5f1e-4913-a7e1-e8a672913563@dunslane.net |
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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(at)anarazel(dot)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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Andrew Dunstan
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