Re: [PATCH 12/13] Bump avocado to 103.0

[Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>]

On 7/29/24 8:02 AM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Does that restore feature parity for macOS developers? Because this
> community has been left behind ignored for over 2 years and already
> looked at alternatives for functional testing.
>

Hi Phillipe,


As early as Avocado 102.0,  macOS support is pretty complete. The exact 
words on the release notes[1] are:


"User of macOS will have a better experience when using Avocado. The 
full set of Avocado’s selftests are now run under macOS on CI. Please be 
advised that macOS is not currently supported at the same level of 
Linux-based operating systems due to the lack of 
contributors/maintainers with access to the needed hardware. If you are 
a user/developer and are willing to contribute to this, please let the 
Avocado team know."


When it comes to the lack of updates, that is a longer discussion 
indeed.  When it comes to alternatives, I don't expect the QEMU project 
to do anything else than what it's in its best interest. As late as this 
can be, please take it for what it's worth.  If it does any good to 
QEMU, please consider it.


Best,

- Cleber.


[1] - https://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/latest/releases/102_0.html


>> Reference: 
>> https://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/103.0/releases/lts/103_0.html
>> Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>   pythondeps.toml | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/pythondeps.toml b/pythondeps.toml
>> index f6e590fdd8..175cf99241 100644
>> --- a/pythondeps.toml
>> +++ b/pythondeps.toml
>> @@ -30,5 +30,5 @@ sphinx_rtd_theme = { accepted = ">=0.5", installed 
>> = "1.1.1" }
>>   # Note that qemu.git/python/ is always implicitly installed.
>>   # Prefer an LTS version when updating the accepted versions of
>>   # avocado-framework, for example right now the limit is 92.x.
>> -avocado-framework = { accepted = "(>=88.1, <93.0)", installed = 
>> "88.1", canary = "avocado" }
>> +avocado-framework = { accepted = "(>=103.0, <104.0)", installed = 
>> "103.0", canary = "avocado" }
>>   pycdlib = { accepted = ">=1.11.0" }
>