[PATCH 2/2] test: pytest runner for the test suite

[Floris Bruynooghe]

On Sun 08 Apr 2018 at 19:14 -0300, David Bremner wrote:

> Floris Bruynooghe <flub at devork.be> writes:
>
>> This series looks good to me, would be great to have!  Do you want to
>> commit them this or should I just incorporate it and submit together
>> with tests once actual tests exist.  You could always commit with a ``def
>> test_dummy(): assert True`` or something if you like.
>>
>
> For now, why don't you just incorporate them. Maybe you'll discover some
> issues with them as you work up some real tests.

Sure, that works.

> BTW, it seems like a
> reasonable plan to get a set of unit tests for the existing bindings
> first to help with migration. Is that what you had in mind?

Yes that's what I had in mind.  To safely swap out ctypes for cffi
adding tests to ensure the existing API behaviour remains is a must.

Which reminds me that it's probably worth calling this out explicitly
again: this works implies that cffi will become an external dependency
[0] for the existing bindings.  Just want to make sure this doesn't
become an issue further down the line.

Cheers,
Floris

[0] Technically only on cpython, it's bundled with pypy.