Re: Circular dependency hell.
Christophe Combelles <[email protected]>
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Lennart Regebro a écrit : > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:37, Christophe Combelles <[email protected]> wrote: >> Depending on setuptools for tests in another evil thing. We should not assume a >> *setup* tool to be a testrunner, and we should not depend on the behaviour of >> setuptools to write tests. > > I'm not sure what you mean there, setuptools doesn't behave in any > particular way when running tests. ok, not a lot, there is currently one single particular behaviour, which is adding tests from the result of the "additional_tests" function in a module. That probably won't hurt. > >> Setuptools is already doing too many things and Tarek >> is taking care (with distutils2 and distribute) to cleany separate the >> functionalities, such as installing, distributing, etc. > > Yes, but that work is not done yet. And one thing that's needed to be > able to run the tests under Python 3 is building it. So it's hard to > separate the building and the running of testsm as a Python 3 capable > testrunner would need to run setup.py build first anyway. Which means > you depends on setuptools/distribute whichever way you turn. > >> Testing is not related to configuring nor installing, and "python setup.py test" >> is no more meaningful than "python setup.py makethecoffee". > > It might seem so, but it is unfortunately not true when considering Python 3. _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )