Maintenance Status?

[sotte]

What is the maintenance status of the project?
The last commit was 17375a1 on Jun 15, 2019. ptw is broken for some users #114 but they are actively trying to fix it #117

A while ago (2017) there was already a discussion about moving pytest-watch to the pytest-dev organization
#75 to share maintenance duties and ensure active development (cc @nicoddemus). Given that people are interested in the plugin and want to contribute I think it would be great to move pytest-watch to the pytest-dev organization.

What do you think @joeyespo?

[olzhasar]

I struggled to make pytest-watch work so I built an alternative tool if anyone is interested:
https://github.com/olzhasar/pytest-watcher

[jnns]

Please excuse if this message is off-topic.

I tried running both pytest-watch and pytest-watcher with my Django project and both of them failed: a special settings_test.py that in turn imports from settings.py could not be imported correctly whereas pytest on its own runs perfectly fine.

I ended up installing entr and used it to run the test from a subdir without any errors:

$ cd tests/subdir
$ ls | entr pytest -x -v 

Hope this helps anyone looking for a quick solution to runing pytest in watch mode.

[max-sixty]

I've been using watchexec as a more general watcher, since pytest-watch no longer works for me.

(This was before I saw @olzhasar 's https://github.com/olzhasar/pytest-watcher, which looks great for python-only use cases, so definitely worth checking that out.)

One downside of watchexec is that it struggles with pytest's --pdb (watchexec/watchexec#209) — possibly due to pytest rather than watchexec — I'll check out pytest-watcher as a possible fix for that.

[meshantz]

This is seeming very abandoned at this point 😢
There has been no activity in this repo for almost 4 years.
The author's last activity on github was nearly a year ago, and completely unrelated to this project.