Re: Merge proposal: tseaver-better_unittests branch of zope.interface
Tres Seaver <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/27/2012 05:08 AM, Brian Sutherland wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 05:38:07PM -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: >> In addition to minimizing "Zope-iness", providing full coverage >> using small, descriptively-named unittests makes the code more >> maintainable. For instance, I expect to build on top of these >> improved tests as the basis for a conversion to a "subset", >> supporting Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.x from a single codebase, without >> needing a translator like lib2to3. >> >> I think it will also be easier to improve the docs, now that they >> no longer bear the burden of supplying coverage / regression testing >> for the code. We can remove a bunch of extremely-terse fragments, >> and have the examples which remain focus more on improving the >> reader's understanding than exercising some corner case. >> >> Unless the consensus is against it, I plan to merge this branch to >> the trunk early next week. > > This sounds great, I think it's exactly the right way to go. It's just > a LOT of work, a BIG thanks for taking it on! Thanks for the support! Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9yP+IACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ5aawCfY5GhVswjgbDYTuVeZc0NyukP wPoAoKMPxLs034DbJmMg6/mwRqxBlR98 =ZEWK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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 )