On Tue, Oct 11, 2016, 18:57 Bruno Oliveira <nicodde...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 7:46 PM oliver <oliver.schoenb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Is there any plan to port boxed and xdist plugins to Windows? What are the > issues that have prevented implementation from happening (or happening > sooner, if planned)? > > > Hey, > > The boxed implementation depends on os.fork, which is not available on > Windows. But except for --boxed, xdist works just fine on Windows. > > A common question is "Why not use a sub-process instead?" One of the > reasons is that is not really simple to serialize and send the collected > tests on a wire to a subprocess, so xdist uses fork to spawn a child > sharing the same memory and control it from master in case it crashes. > Thanks for info. Just trying to see if I could help with this... "send the collected tests... to a subprocess" and "control [subprocess] from master in case it crashes" are not that difficult on Windows, is there some deeper problem or other requirement that is headache? I think I read someone mention that the "slave restart" functionality is > considered a good enough replacement for boxed, > This covers recovery after a test crashes the suite, but AFAICT it doesn't support isolating a test from all the other tests so no sharing of memory space, or to test mutually exclusive import configurations etc, does it? Oliver > -- Oliver
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