Tarek Ziadé wrote:
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Dave Peterson <dpeterson@enthought.com <mailto:dpeterson@enthought.com>> wrote:
If you want to expand the available development pool for setuptools, I would strongly suggest focusing development efforts on creating a regression test suite emphasizing end-to-end functional testing of the current functionality. Such tests would ideally be factored for narrative clarity and compact expressiveness, rather like Jim Fulton's doctests for easy_install's .exe wrappers, and the doctests for zc.buildout. (Because if they're too complicated for me to read, they'll take too long for me to review.)
Okay, we'll see what we can do about that here at Enthought. So far we'd been focusing on bugs / new features that we thought needed to be addressed but that effort can be redirected a bit to helping write tests. I think Tarek suggested a sprint this weekend but I'm not sure if any of our guys will be available that soon. I'll ask around.
Ok cool,
I can spend a bit of time on sunday on this topic, writing a few scenarii. What I have been thinking of is:
- a doctest for each command setuptools provides - a doctest for easy_install - a doctest that uses setuptools/distutils to build, release, and upload a package
Anything else in mind ?
Tarek
That list looks like a great place to start :) I can spend some time this weekend working on this as well, if you want to coordinate efforts. -- Chris Galvan
-- Dave
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