Re: zope.testing / zope.testrunner path forward:

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 05:32:39PM +0100, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> I'd like to put down some effort this week during the EuroPython
> sprint to go forward with zope.testing for Python 3.

I, for one, am extremely grateful that someone (not me, that is) is
working on Python 3 compatibility!

> zope.testing
> 3.9.5 is already deprecating zope.testing.testrunner, but I need to
> remove it so that I can port zope.testing to Python 3 without going
> mad. (zope.testrunner runs on Python 3 already, although installing it
> fails, because it tries to install zope.testing 3.9.5.)
> 
> The questions are (some have been discussed before, but I don't
> remember the outcome):
> 
> 1. Should there be BBB imports of zope.testrunner into zope.testing?
> We can do that to get a longer deprecation period, a couple of months
> isn't very long).

*shrug*

> 2. Should I release the testrunner-free version before I port to
> Python 3, or should we do both at once?Doing both at once of course
> risks more problems than one at a time. On the other hand we might
> want all changes at once to lessen annoyance.

I'm for two separate releases.  "Release early, release often".

> 3. It should be zope.testing 4.0.0, right?

and 3.10.0 as the testrunner-less-but-not-yet-py3k-compatible release.

Marius Gedminas
-- 
http://pov.lt/ -- Zope 3 consulting and development

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