[py-dev] away / dev status [reformatted]

[holger krekel]

(same mail, but properly formatted)

Hello py-dev,

this is note to tell that i am offline at least for march due to
personal troubles.

As to development issues: Guido thankfully agreed to care for
a 0.9.1 release which is to include his svn-auth work and
bugfixes since 0.9.0.

Larger changes, much of the current trunk development, and in
particular the event-branch will probably have to wait. The
event branch contains major cleanups and refactorings.  Here
are some notes:

* py/test2 is the directory with the new code.  This is so
  that you can use "py.test" to test the refactorings.  Otherwise it
  would not be possible to easily use py.test to test py.test
  functionality as refactorings would directly affect test runs
  themselves.

* config objects now have an event "bus" which has a basic simple (zope3-like)
  subscribe/notify mechanism. See test_bus.py

* ItemTestReports events contain the result of test runs and
  there is support for marshalling and unmarshalling their contents.
  This is the key thing that allowed to get rid of
  "SerializableOutcome" and duplications of code resulting from
  the worlds of "in-process" and "distrihuted testing".  The
  idea is that the to-be-written reporters deal with
  "ItemTestReport" events which already contain formatted
  traceback information which is generated directly at the time
  a failure occurs (previously such information was extracted
  much later when the failure reports were actually printed at
  the end of a test run)

* main TODO item is the re-instantiation and re-viving of the
  Text-and other reporters which need to be adapated to the new event
  mechanisms.  It should also be possible to have e.g. a
  Webreporter and a Testreporter and a new "File-reporter" 
  co-exist because they all just subscribe to CollectionStart/Finish 
  and ItemTestReports.

* If you work on the branch i'd suggest to first read the
  files of the current py/test2.  I am saying this because the previous code
  contained a lot of painful duplication and it'd be good to
  avoid this happening again.

anyway, wish you all a good time,
take care,

holger
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