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

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

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.

With regards,
Daniel
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