bug#62694: 30.0.50; eglot-tests fails with recent pylsp

["João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, Apr 9, 2023, 12:22 Basil Contovounesios <contovob@tcd.ie> wrote:

> João Távora [2023-04-06 13:49 +0100] wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 6, 2023, 12:22 Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> wrote:
> >
> >> > Instead of using your distribution package manager, I recommend
> >> > installing pylsp via the official Python package manager, pip, and
> >> > doing it like so:
> >> >
> >> > pip install "python-lsp-server[all]"
>
> IME this may not be sufficient to get the latest version of pylsp's
> dependencies, such as autopep8, which I presume is the component
> responsible for the differences in formatting across development
> environments.
>
> IOW it may be necessary to explicitly 'pip install -U autopep8'.
>

If that were true, GitHub CI would be failing, since it used this command,
and it's not. Tests run on my laptop and I've never run that command, just
the one I suggested.


>> I disagree. Running regression tests towards bleeding edge development
> >> version of pylsp is not the intention. You cannot expect, that everybody
> >> running Emacs tests has installed pylsp like this. But she could have
> >> installed the Debian pylsp package.
> >
> > Sure, or she has a 'pylsp' that prints the complete works of
> > Shakespeare. But these tests are designed for the number one
> > recommended pylsp installation method. It's AFAIK not the
> > "bleeding edge" (which would be a Git installation). And tests
> > have been running fine with that installation method for a
> > number of months now, maybe even years.
>
> FWIW the autopep failure in bug#61637 was with latest pip-installed
> pylsp and autopep8, and the patch in that report worked around it by
> accepting one of a number of possible formattings.
>
> A version check for autopep8 (rather than pylsp) may have been an
> alternative solution


Who knows? Did you try it? If it works i would have been happy to accept
it  Noone proposed it. Instead, some truly vague and complex vapourware
things were proposed.

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