On Feb 6, 2012, at 2:01 PM, Jonathan Lange wrote: > 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.
In my copious spare time :). >> 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. You and me both. >> 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. No problem; thanks for your message! _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
