Re: MockPackage()

2014-03-04 Thread roger peppe
On 3 March 2014 17:49, Nate Finch nate.fi...@canonical.com wrote: John talked to me on a hangout and suggested that, often times, when you need to expose something like this for tests, it ends up being something that production code needs to tweak as well. He'd like to see something better

Re: MockPackage()

2014-03-04 Thread Nate Finch
This is kind of why I made MockPackage, one of those if there's something you don't want people to use, make it ugly. If you really want to expose a knob, it's either a public variable or get/set functions. I don't know of a third way. The nice thing about get/set is that it at least sort of