'make test' fails: $ make test ===> Testing for py38-nose-1.3.7_1 ===> py38-nose-1.3.7_1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/python3.8 - found usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...] or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...] or: setup.py --help-commands or: setup.py cmd --help error: invalid command 'build_tests' *** Error code 1 When do-test is commended out and pytest is added to USE_PYTHON tests also fail: > E ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ConfigParser' and there are also syntax errors. Additionally, the line 'from nose import main' fails with the same error.
devel/py-nose has not been updated since 2016 and from what it looks like it is abandoned. There has been a new project called py-nose2. Maybe we should test on the usability of that otherwise DEPRECIATE the consumers. The errors look like mostly; not fully python3 compatible.