[scikit-image] Future of nose and issues for scikit-image

2016-12-30 Thread François Boulogne
Dear devs, I would like to raise a potential issue with our test suite. Let me list the facts. Our tests rely on nose. As you may have seen, we often have deprecation warnings (See https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/issues/2414 ). These warnings come from nose, https://github.com/nose-d

Re: [scikit-image] Future of nose and issues for scikit-image

2016-12-30 Thread Nelle Varoquaux
Hello, Both matplotlib and sklearn are moving away from nose. I think sklearn's way of moving away is both very sustainable and the transition has been very smooth. The standard library unittest has been wrapped such that the API remains with nose/numpy.testing in a utils.testing module. That mea