[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] December release post-mortem

Stephan Richter srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu
Thu Jan 19 08:21:25 EST 2006


On Thursday 19 January 2006 07:00, Jim Fulton wrote:
> > I have seen you take a similar approach to zope.testing and I found that
> > painful just by watching the checkins.
>
> I don't understand what you mean.  Having a separate zope.testing project
> has been extremely useful.  For example, in our comercial apps,
> we often used newer versions than existed in Zope 3.  We often needed
> enhacements to zope.testing at times that Zope 3 was feature frozen.
> We could have made a Zope 3 branch just to modify zope.testing, but that
> would have been a hassle for us and for Zope 3 developers.  Note that
> the new test runner (from zope.testing) was used in ZODB long before it
> was used in Zope 3.

Argument taken and agreed that this is a valuable use case.

Regard,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
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