Re: RFC: Proposed new style for documenting and testing ZTK packages

Tres Seaver <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.devel
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Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 19:17, Tres Seaver <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm ambivalent about testing the Sphinx code snippets on each test run.
>>  I want those snippets to be *much* less comprehensive than they are
>> currently, and am pretty sure that drift in the non-executable bits is
>> at least as important a problem as drift in the snippets.
> 
> Well, unless they take of time, but they shouldn't, really. I think
> it's positive to get a quick feedback if you are breaking the
> documentation.

Again, I don't mind that part, but I want to break the cycle of jamming
crap (for documentation purposes) into the docs for purposes of getting
test coverage.

>> +0 on running them every time IFF we can find an easy way to run them
>> during 'setup.py test' as well as buildout, and we continue to be
>> mindful of the distinction between docs that work primarily as docs and
>> tests that cover every code path.
> 
> I think manuel should solve that, we'll see, I'll have to test.
> I need to get manuel ported to Python 3 then too. :)

Turtles all the way down. ;)


Tres.
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