[Zope-dev] (re)moving browser subpackage from zc.catalog?

[Michael Howitz]

Am 13.10.2010 um 13:50 schrieb Jan-Wijbrand Kolman:

> On 10/13/10 13:42 , Jan-Wijbrand Kolman wrote:
>> Good idea. This would improve the testing situation. That would
>> definitely help the Grok Toolkit, as it could then run the "normal"
>> tests in the context of the toolkit, without pulling in the dependencies
>> of the browser tests.
> 
> Ah, no it wouldn't help there, as the testrunner would find the tests in 
> the browser subpackage and it would try to run them regardless.
> 
> Then there's no real need for a browser extra, as the browser subpackage 
> does not really have any code (only registrations). Or maybe you meant 
> something different?

When someone wants to use the browser package he could use the "browser" extra to get all the packages needed for the ZCML registrations successfully load. Otherwise he has to find out himself where the ZCML directives are declared. 


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