<div dir="ltr">I think recently we are trying to reduce the number of decorators we are having so adding a few new Ubuntu specific decorators might not be a good idea. My suggestion would be to move on a little bit to the functional programming style with adding a new option to @expetedFailureAll where we can specify a function what have to evaluate to true for the decorator to be considered (and it is evaluated only after all other condition of @expectedFailureAll). Then we can create a free function called getLinuxDistribution what will return the distribution id and then as a final step we can specify a lambda to expetedFailureAll through its new argument what calls getLinuxDistribution and compares it with the right value. I know it is a lot of hoops to jump over to get a distribution specific decorator but I think this approach can handle arbitrarily complex skip/xfail conditions what will help us in the future.<div><br></div><div>What do you think?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Tamas<br><div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 6:31 PM Todd Fiala <<a href="mailto:todd.fiala@gmail.com" target="_blank">todd.fiala@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hey all,<div><br></div><div>What do you think about having some kind of way of marking the (in this case, specifically) Ubuntu distribution for fail/skip test decorators? I've had a few cases where I've needed to mark tests failing on for Ubuntu where it really was only a particular release of an Ubuntu distribution, and wasn't specifically the compiler. (i.e. it was a constellation of more moving parts that clearly occur on a particular release of an Ubuntu distribution but not on others, and certainly not generically across all Linux distributions).</div><div><br></div><div>I'd love to have a way to skip and xfail a test for a specific Ubuntu distribution release. I guess it could be done uber-genrically, but with Linux distributions this can get complicated due to the os/distribution axes. So I'd be happy to start off with just having them at a distribution basis:</div><div><br></div><div>@skipIfUbuntu(version_check_list) # version_check_list contains one or more version checks that, if passing, trigger the skip</div><div><br></div><div>@expectedFailureUbuntu(version_check_list) # similar to above</div><div><br></div><div>Or possibly more usefully,</div><div><br></div><div><div>@skipIfLinuxDistribution(version_check_list) # version_check_list contains one or more version checks that, if passing, trigger the skip, includes the distribution</div><div><br></div><div>@expectedFailureLinuxDistribution(version_check_list) # similar to above</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>It's not clear to me how to work in the os=linux, distribution=Ubuntu into the more generic checks like and get distribution-level version checking working right otherwise, but I'm open to suggestions.</div><div><br></div><div>The workaround for the short term is to just use blanket-linux @skipIf and @expectedFailure style calls.</div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>-- <br></div><div><div dir="ltr">-Todd</div></div>
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