Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] Convert avocado tests to normal Python unittests

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 07:44:39PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> On 11/07/2024 16.39, Fabiano Rosas wrote:
>> > Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:
>> ...
>> > > Things that need further attention though:
>> > > 
>> > > - All tests that use the LinuxTest / LinuxDistro classes (e.g. based
>> > >    on cloud-init images) really depend on the Avocado framework,
>> > >    thus we'd need a solution for those if we want to continue with
>> > >    this approach
>> > > 
>> > > - Same for all tests that require the LinuxSSHMixIn class - we'd
>> > >    need to provide a solution for ssh-based tests, too.
>> > 
>> > These two seem to be dependent mostly avocado/utils only. Those could
>> > still be used without the whole framework, no? Say we keep importing
>> > avocado.utils, but run everything from meson, would that make sense?
>> 
>> Yes ... maybe ... I can give it a try to see whether that works.
>
> We only import about 8 modules from avocado.utils. There are probably a
> few more indirectly used, but worst case we just clone the bits we need
> into the QEMU tree.

Is Avocado still actively developed? I thought you guys used it quite
widely within RedHat?


>
> With regards,
> Daniel

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro