Re: RFC: adding pytest as a supported test framework

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RFC: adding pytest as a supported test framework
Date: 2024-06-12 16:45:52
Message-ID: F7D33BA8-CBA0-4940-ADEC-480FD17348E0@yesql.se
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> On 12 Jun 2024, at 18:08, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 at 17:50, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

>> One thing worth thinking about is that such dependencies have to work on a
>> relatively large number of platforms / architectures. A lot of projects
>> don't...
>
> Do they really? A bunch of the Perl tests we just skip on windows or
> uncommon platforms. I think we could do the same for these.

For a project intended to improve on the status quo it seems like a too low bar to just port over the deficincies in the thing we’re trying to improve over.

./daniel

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