To provide Windows-compatible functionality, spack code should use
llnl.util.symlink instead of os.symlink. On non-Windows platforms
and on Windows where supported, os.symlink will still be used.
Use junctions when symlinks aren't supported on Windows (#22583)
Support islink for junctions (#24182)
Windows: Update llnl/util/filesystem
* Use '/' as path separator on Windows.
* Recognizing that Windows paths start with '<Letter>:/' instead of '/'
Co-authored-by: lou.lawrence@kitware.com <lou.lawrence@kitware.com>
Co-authored-by: John Parent <john.parent@kitware.com>
Modifications:
- [x] Removed `centos:6` unit test, adjusted vermin checks
- [x] Removed backport of `collections.OrderedDict`
- [x] Removed backport of `functools.total_ordering`
- [x] Removed Python 2.6 specific skip markers in unit tests
- [x] Fixed a few minor Python 2.6 related TODOs in code
Updating the vendored dependencies will be done in separate PRs
Currently Spack vendors `pytest` at a version which is three major
versions behind the latest (3.2.5 vs. 6.2.4). We do that since v3.2.5
is the latest version supporting Python 2.6. Remaining so much
behind the currently supported versions though might introduce
some incompatibilities and is surely a technical debt.
This PR modifies Spack to:
- Use the vendored `pytest@3.2.5` only as a fallback solution,
if the Python interpreter used for Spack doesn't provide a newer one
- Be able to parse `pytest --collect-only` in all the different output
formats from v3.2.5 to v6.2.4 and use it consistently for `spack unit-test --list-*`
- Updating the unit tests in Github Actions to use a more recent `pytest` version
