[Zope-dev] zope-tests - FAILED: 12, OK: 8

Adam GROSZER agroszer.ll at gmail.com
Mon Sep 23 10:41:29 CEST 2013


On 09/23/2013 10:03 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 09:01:37AM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 01:00:02AM +0200, Zope tests summarizer wrote:
>>> [2]    winbot / zope.app.authentication_py_265_32
>>> [3]    winbot / zope.app.http_py_265_32
>>> [4]    winbot / zope.app.publication_py_265_32
>>> [8]    winbot / zope.app.wsgi_py_265_32
>>
>> zope.testbrowser-caused WebTest version conflict.
>
> I've no idea why these errors disappeared.
>
>> I plan to release zope.testbrowser 5.0.0 this week.  It should fix these
>> (and probably cause lots of pain elsewhere, if people use undocumented
>> internals like .mech_browser directly, which they do).
>
> I basically chickened out.
>
> IIRC the new webtest-based zope.testbrowser breaks API pretty hard (e.g.
> you can't use zope.app.testing.functional.FunctionalTestLayer any more;
> you must create a WSGITestLayer from I-forgot-what-zope.-package).
>
> What's worse, it lacks documentation for how you're supposed to migrate
> from older zope.testbrowser versions (<=4.x) to newer versions (5.x).
>
> I will not do a release until this documentation exists.

Could you add a line to let's say CHANGES.txt about this?
The idea would be to really block a release.
Not that someone comes around and pushes the release out half baked.


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