I tried to do a build with a pytest.ini file in my directory tree and the first failure is spectractor because it does not have any pytest configuration with it (looks like it's assuming nose tests). Should we add an empty pytest.ini to our branch? cc/ Merlin Fisher-Levine

The rest of lsst_distrib built without issue.

I think the nose stuff is actually not active, that was only when it was eupspkg, now that it's a sconsUtils package I don't think it gets run with nose. But I think this needs to wait until Eli has helped me fix the basic build problems there and that's all running cleanly. Should be later today though, god willing...

I believe it's now gone back to nose tests, so an empty pytest.ini might be a good idea. But if we're going to need this for any third-party forked package, we should document that in the Dev Guide.

This change to sconsUtils is fine.

Thanks KT, this was on my list to follow up on once I'd finally converged, which I've now done at last. And yes, we're back to nosetests.