On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:
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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.)
If people *really* want to solve the development bottleneck, this is the way to go, because it will reduce my role to deciding whether something should go in, and seeing if it passes the tests on a platform or two.
Having a clear state of what "sits in your folder of patches" would be useful too. (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2008-April/009278.html) I am not sure http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/ reflects it That's something I think I could manage to do, even with my current work
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What about dedicating a sprint on building a regression test suite this Saturday ? It is Python bug day. I am in to work on some doctests. Do you have the time to give us more details on what you would like to see ? Maybe you could write one-sentence doctests for us to start it up this week end ? Tarek
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