Alex Meade wrote: > +1 to everything Russell just said and of course Blueprints for this. One for > #3 (changing from mox -> Mock) would be good so that anyone who is bored or > finds this urgent can collaborate. Also, we need to make sure reviewers are > aware (Hopefully they are reading this). > > -Alex
I have created a blueprint for Nova: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/mox-to-mock-conversion Our team has some spare cycles, so we can work on that. > -----Original Message----- > From: "Russell Bryant" <rbry...@redhat.com> > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 2:45pm > To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Usage of mox through out the Openstack project. > > On 07/24/2013 02:32 PM, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 14:12 -0400, Chuck Short wrote: > >> 1. Change mox usage to more python3 friendly such as mock. > >> (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mock/1.0.1). However this will cause > >> alot of code churn in the projects as we move away from mox to mock. > >> > >> > >> 2. Use the python3 fork called pymox > >> (https://github.com/emonty/pymox). This project has reasonable > >> compatibility with mox and is python3 compatible. Using this option > >> causes less code churn. IMHO this would be the better option. > > > > My personal preference is that we move to mock; I think it is a better > > methodology, and I like its features. > > > > That's fine with me if everyone feels that way. I'm afraid it's not a > quick move because of how much we're using mox. A practical approach > would probably be: > > 1) Prefer mock for new tests. > > 2) Use suggestion #2 above to mitigate the Python 3 concern. > > 3) Convert tests to mock over time, opportunistically, as tests are > being updated anyway. (Or if someone *really* wants to take this on as > a project ...) > > -- > Russell Bryant Roman Bogorodskiy
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