On Friday 02 November 2007, Christian Theune wrote:
I think that extras for tests are a necessary evil until we have unscrewed the dependencies of the functional test setups.
Depends on what 'unscrew' means. Functional test setups might want to demonstrate more in-depth, "real-life" scenarios where they have to introduce more dependencies than the actual package itself needs, so two sets of dependencies are needed anyway, or not?
He he, yep, you are right. The point I was trying to make is that unscrewing the functional tests dependencies is a pointless exercise since you want to demonstrate the functionality in one more realistic environment. Like you said. And those dependencies might not match my use of the package. BTW, I think you guys did a good job of separating the real and testing dependencies for the Zope packages. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student) Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training