[Zope-dev] [Checkins] SVN: zope.testbrowser/trunk/ - Switched to Zope 3.4 KGS.

Stephan Richter srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu
Mon Dec 8 11:48:39 EST 2008


On Monday 08 December 2008, Benji York wrote:
> Nope, the tests will pass in the zope.testbrowser buildout.
>
> However, if a testbrowser user for some reason run the testbrowser tests
> outside of its buildout, then you're right, they may see a failure if
> their versions aren't new enough.  At that point I would hope they would
> read the CHANGES.txt and see that a new version is required.
>
> The trade off is in requiring people to upgrade a dependency in order to
> get a bug fix that they may not care about.
>
> In the large, this is the problem with specifying versions in setup.py.
> Doing so assumes too much about how people are using all the
> dependencies involved.

Yep, I could not agree more. :-)

Regards,
Stephan
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