[Zope-dev] zope.testing 3.8.6 emits deprecation warnings from itself?

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Tue Dec 29 17:58:56 EST 2009


Marius Gedminas wrote:
> +1 for all the changes, but AFAICS if people move from
> zope.testing.doctest to stdlib's doctest they lose at least two things:
> 
>   * custom doctest exception formatting
> 
>   * support for the INTERPRET_FOOTNOTES feature
> 
> and since zope.testing.doctest still reimplements large bits of doctest,
> I don't know what other bugfixes might be lost too (like the universal
> newline thing that punishes people for daring to release packages from
> Windows machines).

Not even release, develop and test...

> Overall, I'm still -1 for deprecating zope.testing.doctest at this point.
> A PendingDeprecationWarning would be more appropriate, IMHO.

I'm -sys.maxint, lets not have the zLOG debacle over again...

Chris

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