On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:54:03PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:04:34PM +0000, Chris Withers wrote: > > I hate DeprecationWarnings at the best of times, since no one actually > > does anything about them until whatever they're bleating about is > > actually gone anyway, but zope.testing has outdone itself. > > Some background, because you're obviously not following all the threads > currently active on zope-dev (nobody can!): > > * there was a zope.testing 3.8.4 release that dropped some "unused > imports" from zope.testing.doctestunit > > * that turned out to break many things, including zope.container and > (according to some reports) zope.interface > > * there were changes made to zope.testing trunk, backpedaling a bit and > adding those legacy imports back, with a deprecation warning for the > whole zope.testing.doctestunit, and (for good measure) a deprecation > warning for zope.testing.doctest. > > * I released zope.testing 3.8.5 with the deprecation warning (which turned > out to be triggered by zope.testing itself, making the warning quite > useless) because I thought having a spurious warning is better than > having broken zope.interface > > * I then had to release zope.testing 3.8.6 because the 3.8.5 egg was > broken (thank you setuptools for the sudden but inevitable stab in > the back) > > * Fabio Tranchitella is working to make the zope.testing.doctest > deprecation warning useful by doing scary things like converting > zope.testing.doctest from a module into a package that has all the > code in __init__.py. He asked for a review of his changes. I'm too > scared to do that. > > * Meanwhile there are discussions about issues switching from old > zope.testing.doctest to stdlib's doctest with Windows and newlines. > > * I'd rather revert back the state of things as > of zope.testing 3.8.4 with the legacy zope.testing.doctestunit > imports added back and a single deprecation warning for > zope.testing.doctestunit, until we figure out the difficult part: > what to do with zope.testing.doctest itself. > > Opinions? > > > Whoever introduced that warning, if you're going to do so, please solve > > any problems with code in the actual package itself before releasing. > > > > zope.testing.testrunner.debug imports doctest from zope.testing and so > > bleats whenever tests are run with zope.testing 3.8.6. > > > > Why was 3.8.6 released when it still emits these warnings itself? > > Because 3.8.5 broke running code. > > Why was 3.8.5 released when it broke running code?
Both of the previous sentences were meant to say 3.8.4. Thanks again, setuptools. > Because there were > no comments explaining that those "unused imports" were part of the API, > and no buildbots to give a timely warning about unexpected breakage of > other packages. > > Welcome to the wonderful world of non-monolithic Zope 3. Fasten your > seat-belt, it could get bumpy. Marius Gedminas -- http://pov.lt/ -- Zope 3 consulting and development
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