[Python-Dev] unittest.TestSuite holding references to unittest.TestCase instances too long

[Michael Foord]

On 6 Aug 2013, at 21:05, Matt McClure <matthewlmcclure at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> unittest itself has changed so extensively since the last release of unittest2 that I'm not sure whether a completely fresh start for unittest2 might be needed. (Although I intend to do another bugfix release of this version as well.)
> 
> Making unittest2 will involve:
> 
>         * Taking the Python 3 unittest and porting code plus tests to run on python 2
> [ ... ]
> 
> I took a different approach and simply applied the patch of diffs[1] from the Python 3 issue to the unittest2 tip.
> 
> There was a small amount of renaming "unittest" to "unittest2" required, but other than that, the patch applied pretty cleanly, and seems to pass the unit tests and avoid the ever-increasing memory problem in my private test suite.
> 
> Do you think it's sufficient to port just this feature? Or if not, what am I missing that requires resyncing more of unittest2 with the changes from Python 3?
> 
> Is Google Code[2] still the right place for unittest2 issues? I found that via PyPI[3].
> 
> It looks like there have been a lot of commits in the unittest2 repository since the last PyPI release (2010-07-12 -- 0.5.1). Would you plan to do another PyPI release of unittest2 with this feature? Or would you recommend using unittest2 from the repository to get it? Or am I missing a more recent packaged release somewhere else?
> 


I plan to do a bugfix release which fixes bugs in unittest2 since the PyPI release. (Foolishly I don't think I tagged so I need to work out which revision corresponds to the released version.)

I will also do a new release with *all* new features. I won't do a release with just this new feature no.

For unittest2 specific issues, yes google code is still the correct issue tracker.

Michael

> [1]: https://bitbucket.org/matthewlmcclure/unittest2/compare/issue11798-tip..issue11798-base#diff
> [2]: https://code.google.com/p/unittest-ext/issues/detail?id=76&sort=-id
> [3]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2
> 
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