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

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 03:25:23PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 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?

Yes it is active:

https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/commits/master/

With regards,
Daniel
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