Cloning ~all pytest plugins

[The-Compiler]

I thought it'd be a fun idea to clone (almost) all pytest plugins to have a corpus of plugins lying around if we want to find out e.g. how much a certain deprecation will affect things.

Thus, I took update-plugin-list.py and hacked on it until I got it to find most code hosting URLs from PyPI (surprisingly hard...) and clone the repos: https://paste.the-compiler.org/view/0e5f4c5a

It's ugly, and really just a quick hack, but it seems to do it's job: After waiting a bit, around 750 plugins (~1GB total) ended up on my disk.

Using that corpus, we can now find out if any plugin still refers to the #pylib IRC channel after changing pytest's docs (answer: pytest-django does); or we can see what the most popular plugin hooks are:

$ grep -h -I -R -o 'def pytest_[^(]*' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 40
    591 def pytest_addoption
    498 def pytest_configure
    185 def pytest_collection_modifyitems
    162 def pytest_runtest_makereport
    145 def pytest_sessionfinish
    133 def pytest_runtest_setup
    110 def pytest_terminal_summary
    110 def pytest_sessionstart
     95 def pytest_generate_tests
     94 def pytest_unconfigure
     84 def pytest_runtest_logreport
     79 def pytest_collect_file
     57 def pytest_runtest_teardown
     56 def pytest_report_header
     54 def pytest_runtest_call
     50 def pytest_load_initial_conftests
     48 def pytest_addhooks
     36 def pytest_report_teststatus
     35 def pytest_runtestloop
     34 def pytest_runtest_protocol
     33 def pytest_collectreport
     31 def pytest_pycollect_makeitem
     30 def pytest_collection_finish
     30 def pytest_cmdline_main
     24 def pytest_fixture_setup
     22 def pytest_runtest_logstart
     20 def pytest_pyfunc_call
     20 def pytest_collection
     19 def pytest_internalerror
     18 def pytest_itemcollected
     18 def pytest_ignore_collect
     16 def pytest_assertrepr_compare
     14 def pytest_exception_interact
     13 def pytest_runtest_logfinish
     13 def pytest_configure_node
     12 def pytest_namespace
     12 def pytest_logger_fileloggers
     12 def pytest_logger_config
     11 def pytest_testnodedown
     11 def pytest_make_parametrize_id