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Re: pybuild and testing pytest plugins

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On 1/13/19 9:23 PM, Scott Talbert wrote:
> When packaging a pytest plugin and wanting to run the plugin's unit 
> tests during the build process, the plugin usually has to be installed 
> before running the tests, otherwise pytest cannot find the plugin.  This 
> seems to require workarounds such as this [1].
> 
> Is there any way to avoid this with pybuild or is such a workaround 
> really necessary?
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott
> 
> [1] 
> https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/modules/pytest-xdist/blob/debian/master/debian/rules#L12 
> 
> 
> 

Hi!

Conceptually I think it's more relevant to override dh_auto_test. To 
make sure pytest will register the plugin one may tweak the $PYTHONPATH. 
That's the approach I followed in pytest-flask, see [1].

Not sure if this is a workaround too though :)

Cheers,
Alex

[1] 
https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/modules/pytest-flask/blob/debian/master/debian/rules

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pybuild and testing pytest plugins Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net> - 2019-01-13 20:40 +0100
  Re: pybuild and testing pytest plugins Alexandros Afentoulis <alexaf@bloom.re> - 2019-01-14 09:30 +0100
    Re: pybuild and testing pytest plugins Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> - 2019-01-14 12:40 +0100

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