[chirp_devel] New Driver Questions - New Dev

[Andy Knitt]

I've put together a driver for the TYT TH-8600 that's working for both
read/write for memories and basic settings (I haven't yet reversed the
2tone/5tone/dtmf signalling settings).  This my first attempt at a driver
and I have a few questions:

   1. Should I have beta testers of my driver test from my fork prior to
   submitting a PR, or is there a better/preferred approach to this?
   2. The manufacturer's software saves the memory map in a pretty easy to
   read .icf format.  I've noticed that some drivers have a "File" class
   in addition to the Radio class (for example TYTTH7800File).  Is this
   the mechanism to use to implement the ability for CHIRP to read the
   manufacturer's memory map files in, if desired?
   3. I'm having some issues with tests and am not confident that my driver
   is actually being tested.  This is my first experience with tox, so I'm
   fumbling a bit.
   1.  When I run py -3.10-64 -m tox all tests pass, though it takes a
      really long time to complete.  However, I see no mention of my driver in
      any of the printed output.
      2. When I run py -3.10-64 -m tox -e fast-driver all tests pass and it
      seems to recognize my file as a "touched driver".  However, I
still see no
      mention of my driver in any of the tests being run, though I do
see mention
      of some Baofeng models that I haven't touched.  Not sure what's going on
      there.
         1. The H777 driver was causing the fast-driver test to fail due to
         some Chinese characters in the code comments.  I had to remove those
         characters from the H777 driver to get it to run to
completion.  Not sure
         how the H777 driver passed.
      3. When I run py -3.10-64 -m tox -e driver -- -k th8600 it fails but
      I'm struggling to understand why:
      ================================================= test session starts
      =================================================
      platform win32 -- Python 3.10.7, pytest-7.1.3, pluggy-1.2.0 --
      C:\chirp\.tox\driver\Scripts\python.EXE
      cachedir: .tox\driver\.pytest_cache
      metadata: {'Python': '3.10.7', 'Platform':
      'Windows-10-10.0.22621-SP0', 'Packages': {'pytest': '7.1.3', 'pluggy':
      '1.2.0'}, 'Plugins': {'html': '3.2.0', 'metadata': '3.0.0', 'xdist':
      '3.3.1'}}
      rootdir: C:\chirp, configfile: tox.ini
      plugins: html-3.2.0, metadata-3.0.0, xdist-3.3.1
      created: 8/8 workers
      8 workers [0 items]

      scheduling tests via LoadScheduling

      ------------------------------ generated html file:
      file:///C:/chirp/driver_report.html -------------------------------
      =============================================== 1056 warnings in
      14.88s ===============================================
      driver: exit 5 (15.56 seconds) C:\chirp> pytest --disable-warnings
      --html=driver_report.html -v tests/test_drivers.py -n auto -k th8600
      pid=50384
      .pkg: _exit> python
      C:\Python_310_64\lib\site-packages\pyproject_api\_backend.py True
      setuptools.build_meta __legacy__
        driver: FAIL code 5 (33.72=setup[18.16]+cmd[15.56] seconds)
        evaluation failed :( (34.16 seconds)

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks,

Andy
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