Cannot run tests on macOS

[madwort]

Not really a massive issue, but I'm not sure I can install RPi.GPIO on macOS, so I can't run the tests - might be possible to abstract that out so that I could work on the application code (like input error handling) without having to actually be on a RPi...

[sandreae]

Sorry I'm only just getting back to you on these issues, thanks for raising them 👍

Yeh, seems like RPI.GPIO only compiles on Linux systems. None of the GPIO functionality is used in the tests, so for example, things run fine for me on Ubuntu 20.04. I don't know of a good way to skip certain dependencies in requirements.txt depending on the environment. Maybe there is one though? A relatively simple solution would be to run the tests in a Docker container.

[madwort]

ah cool - as GPIO is not needed for the tests maybe the simplest way is a separate requirements-macos-test.txt file? seems like you could make it more sophisticated with conditional includes and/or abstracting out common requirements & then including them - but for these purposes I would probably just cut-and-paste...?