Both my machine and apparently the CI tester machines regularly run
into issues with load on the system, causing timeouts (and
unresponsiveness). The throttler throttles the speed with which new
instances of c-lightning get started to avoid overloading. Since the
plugin used for parallelism when testing spawns multiple processes we
need to lock on the fs. Since we have that file open already, we'll
also write a couple of performance metics to it.
This will change some `requirements.txt` of pyln-testing in a way that
it does not require different package version i.e. to `tests/requirements.txt`.
The reason for this is that users are not forced to hassle with pyenv
or virtualenv and could just use `--user`.
```bash
pip install --user -r tests/requirements.txt -r contrib/pyln-testing/requirements.txt
```
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Trying to `pip install psycopg2-binary==2.8.3` raised an error for a
long time. Since version `2.8.4` is recent and also seem to work I
suggest updating the requirements so other users dont run into the
following error, where pip tries to use `pg_config` for the BINARY
package:
Collecting psycopg2-binary==2.8.3 (from -r contrib/pyln-testing/requirements.txt (line 6))
Using cached 91911be018/psycopg2-binary-2.8.3.tar.gz
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /usr/bin/python -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-zapr0fhs/psycopg2-binary/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-zapr0fhs/psycopg2-binary/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base pip-egg-info
cwd: /tmp/pip-install-zapr0fhs/psycopg2-binary/
Complete output (23 lines):
running egg_info
creating pip-egg-info/psycopg2_binary.egg-info
writing pip-egg-info/psycopg2_binary.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing dependency_links to pip-egg-info/psycopg2_binary.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing top-level names to pip-egg-info/psycopg2_binary.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing manifest file 'pip-egg-info/psycopg2_binary.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
Error: pg_config executable not found.
pg_config is required to build psycopg2 from source. Please add the directory
containing pg_config to the $PATH or specify the full executable path with the
option:
python setup.py build_ext --pg-config /path/to/pg_config build ...
or with the pg_config option in 'setup.cfg'.
If you prefer to avoid building psycopg2 from source, please install the PyPI
'psycopg2-binary' package instead.
For further information please check the 'doc/src/install.rst' file (also at
<http://initd.org/psycopg/docs/install.html>).
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.
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Using the psycopg2-binary package means that the apropriate compiled binary
for the user platform will be shipped alongside the python binaries. Otherwise
the python bindings and the C shims would be shipped which would then require
the postgres development packages as well.
This just makes things easier, since we don't require the build dependencies.
We'll rewrite the tests to use this infrastructure in the next commit.
Changelog-Added: The new `pyln-testing` package now contains the testing infrastructure so it can be reused to test against c-lighting in external projects
