On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 10:33:09AM -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: > Why would we want to pull in all of Zope3 as a dependency (worse, a > hidden one) before testing an egg? If the egg's dependencies are > broken, I *want* the tests to fail. I don't think testing against a > "fat" meta-egg satisfies that goal. Fix the egg so that its > 'install_requires' or 'tests_requires' are sufficient to make the tests > pass instead.
There are two conflicting goals here:
(1) testing that an egg's tests fail when its dependency list is
incomplete
(2) testing whether any of the other eggs that depend on this one
break due to recent changes
> I thought Roger was one of the folks looking to *reduce* the set of
> dependencies his application had on zope3 coee -- testing against the
> meta-egg actually makes that problem worse.
I think Roger wants (2).
Marius Gedminas
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