Make use of pytest for testing and use GitHub Actions

[J535D165]

I think the pytest framework can be useful to test the package. It's more flexible and readable.

Also, making use of GitHub Actions would be nice.

[earnestt1234]

Not very familiar with GitHub Actions, but seems nice 😄. Having automatic testing on push or deployment to PyPI on release would be very nice.

And I am okay with moving to pytest if that is recommended or better for GitHub Actions. I didn't have a strong reason for going with unittest. I'm a little tied up for the next couple weeks but could revisit after that.

[J535D165]

Nice, happy to review.

[earnestt1234]

Didn't get around to addressing this for at all for the new version. Still planning to look into this, but will need to do some learning & testing

[J535D165]

No worries. Version 0.4 is a nice improvement.

I'm working on a project, J535D165/scitree, which relies heavily on seedir. I want to propose some changes to the seedir API as I think they are both valuable for scitree and seedir. But the tests are holding me back at the moment. But there is no hurry for me :) Will work on this later.

[earnestt1234]

That sounds great! Interested to hear your suggestions. Thanks for sharing your project, looks cool!

I generally want to improve/augment the testing suite for seedir. But still collecting my thoughts on what changes exactly. But I will port things to pytest as I am doing so

[earnestt1234]

😪 Only took 2 years but finally made the tests pytest compatible: aeb1d25. Should have just made ChatGPT do it.

@J535D165 not sure if you are still interested, but you can explore/propose your API changes now.

I still have not learned GitHub actions - still sounds appealing to me but haven't put the time in. I probably will not be able to pursue in the near feature, however, unless other changes necessitate it.

[J535D165]

Great. Maybe I will look into it during my summer break in August.

[timweissenfels]

Hahaha, I just got a push notification for this issue, so crazy to see you guys revisiting this package 👍