On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 09:03:33AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > > > > > > > No problem with that. So that's venv. But do we need pip and > > > > > > > pulling > > > > > > > packages from the net during testing? > > > > > > > > > > > > We do that too. See requirements.txt in tests/ > > > > > > Following two are downloaded: > > > > > > avocado-framework==88.1 > > > > > > pycdlib==1.11.0 > > > > > > > > > > > > Also see this line in Makefie.include: > > > > > > > > > > > > $(call quiet-venv-pip,install -r $(TESTS_VENV_REQ)) > > > > > > > > > > Right but that's avocado since it pulls lots of stuff from > > > > > the net anyway. > > > > > Are the libraries in question not packaged on major distros? > > > > > > > > Currently I only need this: > > > > https://github.com/python-tap/tappy > > > > which is the basic TAP processing library for python. > > > > > > > > It seems its only installed through pip: > > > > https://tappy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ > > > > > > > > I do not think this is packaged by default. It's such a basic library > > > > for parsing test output that maybe we can keep this somewhere within > > > > the python src tree? Not sure ... > > > > > > It's pretty small for sure. Another submodule? > > > > Unlike BITS, this one is likely going to be maintained for a while and > > will receive new releases through > > https://pypi.org/project/tap.py/ > > so forking is OK but someone has to keep this updated. > > > > I am open to anything. Whatever feels right is fine to me. > > John Snow is currently working on the "Pythonification" of various QEMU > bits, I think you should loop him into this discussion, too. > > Thomas
submodule does not mean we fork necessarily. We could have all options: check for the module and use it if there, if not use one from system if not there install with pip .. But yea, I'm not sure what's best either. -- MST
