[Python-Dev] unittest Suggestions

[John J Lee]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
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> nose itself is not a completely independent piece of work but "a discovery-based
> unittest extension" (although a very big extension!). For that reason, Michael
> Foord's suggestion to gradually modernize and improve the stdlib unittest sounds
> reasonable to me: it allows to be more focussed, keep backwards compatibility,
> and also to decide and implement changes piecewise - avoiding the blank sheet
> effect where people all push for wild ideas and radically new concepts (tm).

+1 (speaking as somebody who has worked on nose a bit)


John