Rocky wrote:
Hanno Schlichting wrote:
Is lxml a real dependency for the functionality we use in Plone or is it
optional or only required to run the tests?
If lxml is not required (but can be used) by wicked then the tests
should reflect the same thing imho. The tests should conditionally
test lxml only if available.
If the tests fail because lxml doesn't exist, then wicked itself
shouldn't work when deployed either without lxml.
- Rocky
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they error, not fail(which is different). lxml is a tool for testing in
this case. the tests are old style unit tests and someday they will get
rewritten in more modern forms.
the use lxml is primarily to make test output understandable by
stripping out the whitespace created by TAL while testing the rendering
of links (20 some tests, essentially AT/plone integration tests. This
suite is run twice, one to test basic setup, a second time to test the
specialize plone registrations). The dependency is on libxslt2-py or
lxml. wicked in no way uses lxml in it's actua function.
we could turn these tests off for systems without libxslt or lxml and
emit a warning. if someone has a whitespace normalizing routine that is
standard library friendly that would work too.
-w
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