On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 05:38:07PM -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: > In addition to minimizing "Zope-iness", providing full coverage using > small, descriptively-named unittests makes the code more maintainable. > For instance, I expect to build on top of these improved tests as the basis > for a conversion to a "subset", supporting Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.x from > a single codebase, without needing a translator like lib2to3. > > I think it will also be easier to improve the docs, now that they no > longer bear the burden of supplying coverage / regression testing for > the code. We can remove a bunch of extremely-terse fragments, and have > the examples which remain focus more on improving the reader's > understanding than exercising some corner case. > > Unless the consensus is against it, I plan to merge this branch to the > trunk early next week.
This sounds great, I think it's exactly the right way to go. It's just a LOT of work, a BIG thanks for taking it on! -- Brian Sutherland _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
