[openstack-dev] [testing] moving testrepository *outside* the tox venv

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Fri Jul 10 23:40:09 UTC 2015


On 11 July 2015 at 11:34, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:
> On 07/10/2015 07:19 PM, Robert Collins wrote:
>> On 10 July 2015 at 01:59, Morgan Fainberg <morgan.fainberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Or a database per python major version (or at least gracefully handle the incompatibility).
>>
>> So that would partition the data, and the whole point of test
>> *repository* is that it builds a database across all your tests to
>> answer useful questions.
>
> Totally understand that.
>
> On the other hand ...
>
> a) is that setup/behavior common enough to be more important than:
>
> b) the dbm file format mess is both annoying and confusing
>
> I get the theory of why - but it's also a common thing that provides rage.

It happens and creates rage *because* its installed in the venv. Fix
that unsupported and against-design issue and b) stops happening.

-Rob



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