[Zope-dev] zope.index

[Benji York]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Dan Korostelev <nadako at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/12/2 Marius Gedminas <marius at gedmin.as>:
>> On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 02:04:39AM +0300, Dan Korostelev wrote:
>>> I just removed zope.testing from the zope.index dependency and
>>> replaced zope.testing.doctest imports with plain python doctest and it
>>> seems to work with python 2.4 and 2.5 here. Now, it only depends on
>>> ZODB3 and zope.interface, which is nice :) Is there any objections on
>>> this?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> Using 'import doctest' rather than 'from zope.testing import doctest'
>> was a pretty reliable way to break test.py --coverage, at least on
>> Python 2.4.
>
> Oh, thanks for the hint. I'll fix that now. :) There's no need to use
> try/except though, it's nicer just to create an extras_require for
> tests, I think.

The status quo is to forgo creating extras unless there is a compelling
reason to have one.  Creating a test extra just to remove a dependency
on zope.testing -- which only depends on zope.interface -- is not
compelling.
-- 
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation