[yocto] Python3 ptest and unittest

[Randy MacLeod]

On 14-02-18 04:27 PM, Paul Barker wrote:
> I've just thrown together a couple of things which may be useful.
> They're currently slightly hackish but I could improve them and share
> them/submit them as patches if wanted:
>
> 1) I've wrote a custom python test runner which runs test suites and
> outputs the format expected by ptest natively instead of needing the
> sed magic in "openembedded-core/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python/run-ptest".
> I'm using it in my own project, might move the opkg test suite over to
> it if I have time, and it might be useful for any other python test
> suites. It's <50 lines of python :)
>
> 2) I've wrote a script which patches this test runner into python3's
> own testsuite then runs the suite. You don't even to patch the
> Makefile from the python source tree and install it (as in the python
> recipe in openembedded-core). It should run on anything with python3
> installed with the python standard library (as the standard library
> already includes all the tests). This may be a good option for adding
> ptest support to the python3 recipe - it'd just be a single 50-line
> 'run-ptest' script written in python.
>
> Does that sound interesting to anyone else?


Yes, this seems to be very useful. Can you send a patch for review?

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