On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > On Feb 6, 2012, at 10:48 AM, Jonathan Lange wrote: > > In my ideal world, Twisted's TestCase would inherit from testtools's > TestCase and would continue to provide the same API it does today. > This might not be everyone else's ideal though, and the path from here > to there is unclear to me. I welcome your thoughts. > > ... > While testtools' features are nice, and I will likely even elect to use > myself it for testing some Twisted applications in the future, I would set > the bar very high for making testtools a required dependency for Twisted's > own test suite.
I highly recommend trying it out. > Just for starters, the Python packaging ecosystem disaster > would need to be fixed; As much as I would like to see that happen, I am not ever going to do anything about it. > also, the name of the package should be changed to > be more unique so that users wouldn't find things like > <http://www.testtools.com/> and <https://github.com/ferruhy/testtools> when > searching around the web for the contents of the inevitable packaging error > message. > We've already renamed once (from pyunit3k). Would consider renaming again if someone suggested something sufficiently good. Thanks for the reply. jml _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
