An ongoing theme with the developers

Posted May 28, 2025 8:17 UTC (Wed) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: An ongoing theme with the developers by jdulaney
Parent article: Home Assistant deprecates the "core" and "supervised" installation modes

Not in this case.

Those 600 deps mean that HA uses existing and hopefully-tested-on-actual-hardware Python libraries to talk to $THING, which can be stubbed out for unit testing rather easily, instead of re-inventing 200 wheels that can't be tested without the actual hardware.

An ongoing theme with the developers

Posted May 28, 2025 9:54 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (1 responses)

> which can be stubbed out for unit testing rather easily, instead of re-inventing 200 wheels that can't be tested without the actual hardware.

And with hardware, you can test it directly instead of needing an HA installation to drive it.

An ongoing theme with the developers

Posted May 28, 2025 19:13 UTC (Wed) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]

… and without hardware *and* without an abstraction layer, you can't test anything and are SOL.

You get to guess how many CI runners, or users for that matter, have 100 different kinds of home automation hardware attached to them.