[Zope-dev] Zope Toolkit - packages with zope.app dependencies

Marius Gedminas marius at gedmin.as
Mon Dec 28 18:08:29 EST 2009


On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:05:29PM +0100, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> > zope.testbrowser
> > 
> > This package offers functional browser tests and consequently needs a
> > way to set up a ZODB and publisher with some default application
> > configuration. I don't see how this can be achieved without depending
> > on a specific application environment like zope.app.appsetup or
> > Zope2/App. Zope2 depends on the package and it makes sense to include
> > it on the application server level - but not on a toolkit level for
> > building frameworks.
> > 
> > ACTION: I'd suggest to drop this package from the ZTK.
> 
> If there are multiple frameworks that use this (and there are, Zope 2, 
> Grok, Zope 3 apps),
> shouldn't just drop it. We could move it into the 'under review' status 
> or something.

Refactoring bits so that you could use zope.testbrowser for writing
functional tests without depending on zope.app.testing's functional test
bits would be nice.

Maybe split off the zope.app-depending bits into zope.app.testbrowser?

Marius Gedminas
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