Please migrate away from nose for testing

[llimeht]

Apparently nose will soon cease to work for setuptools; while that doesn't directly affect i18nspector, the end is nigh for it in Debian as well, and it's obviously my preference to keep running build-time and autopkgtest tests on i18nspector.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2021/10/msg00058.html

Is there a plan to migrate to a different test harness? The migration looks moderately painful but certainly doable to either unittest or py.test (the latter probably being easier).

[jwilk]

Apparently nose will soon cease to work for setuptools; while that doesn't directly affect i18nspector, the end is nigh for it in Debian as well, and it's obviously my preference to keep running build-time and autopkgtest tests on i18nspector.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2021/10/msg00058.html

To clarify:

• Setuptools 58 dropped support for running 2to3 at build time: lib2to3 will be removed in Python 3.10 pypa/setuptools#2086
  This version was uploaded to Debian unstable on 2021-10-11, and migrated to testing on 2021-10-16.
• Nose's build system relies on that feature, so it now fails to build: https://bugs.debian.org/997758

Is there a plan to migrate to a different test harness? The migration looks moderately painful but certainly doable to either unittest or py.test (the latter probably being easier).

Maintaining a nose fork (in a life-support style) would be probably less work than migrating away from it, but I'm not excited about either.

For now, I sent patches to the Debian bug. Let's see how it goes.

[jwilk]

Fixed in 0.27.1.