[TIP] nose/py.test plugins (was Re: Coverage.py 3.2b1: Branch coverage])

[Michael Foord]

Victoria G. Laidler wrote:
> holger krekel wrote:
>> Hi Vicky, Ned, Jason,
>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:51 -0500, Victoria G. Laidler wrote:
>>  
>>> Hi Holger and Jason,
>>>
>>> Is there a write-up anywhere yet that has instructions for plugin  
>>> authors who want to make their plugins compatible with both test 
>>> systems?
>>> Or maybe two simple-minded writeups, one to convert an existing 
>>> nose  plugin to support py.test, and the other for vice-versa?
>>>     
>>
>> no write-ups i know off. 
>> My impression is that people like to work from real-life examples.    
> Uh, just for the record, I loathe working from examples instead of 
> from actual documentation. *My* impression is that people don't like 
> to write actual documentation! ;) and thus point people at code instead.
>

+lots

:-)

Michael

>
>> Let's open a coverage-fork on bitbucket and give all
>> interested people write-access there ... (Ned, if you do it,
>> my username is 'hpk42' there).
>>   
> I was less interested in the immediate coverage plugin and more 
> interested in helping everybody write future plugins that could work 
> with both systems. I have a Pandokia plugin for nose that I'd be glad 
> to make work with py.test, if I had some decent instructions. But I'm 
> not interested in reverse-engineering some other random plugin in 
> order to figure out what to do to mine.
>
> Vicki
>
>>
>>  
>>> jason pellerin wrote:
>>>    
>>>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Ned Batchelder 
>>>> <ned at nedbatchelder.com> wrote:
>>>>        
>>>>> holger krekel wrote:
>>>>>            
>>>>>> Hi Ned, Vicky, all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> what about a plugin that works on both nose and pytest?
>>>>>> Rozza has done a coverage plugin for pytest here.
>>>>>> http://github.com/rozza/py.test-plugins/blob/master/pytest_coverage.py 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and i am happy to help to work on a joint one.  If i see it 
>>>>>> correctly it
>>>>>> shouldn't be hard to make a single source & setup for a 
>>>>>> nose/py.test plugin.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>                 
>>>>> This seems like a great idea...
>>>>>             
>>>> Yes!
>>>>
>>>> JP
>>>>
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