hi everyone, while reviewing the codebase i noticed, that the code that is ensuring we don't use conftests from other folders don't take into account `pytest_plugins` declared in such a conftest thus the plugin system gives a false impression.
intuitively i'd expect plugins listed in a conftest only to be active when that conftest is active however due to the way our plugin system works, we only mark conftests of other folders as "disabled" not their dependencies i dont see a sane way to implement this feature correctly, as we wouldnt be allowed to disable a plugin just because its listed in one folder, after all it may be listed in multiple folders but not one certain folder the plugin system as we constructed is is not aware of hierarchical dependencies and i dont think we can get this good/right with the current development process we use as such i propose deprecating them and warning users about the problems with regard to when and how to warn we need to take a look in detail as there are many reasonably valid setups with exactly one non initial conftest and we should help people to turn those into initial conftest's while cleaning out the rest. -- Ronny _______________________________________________ pytest-dev mailing list pytest-dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytest-dev
