[Zope-dev] Removing zope.testrecorder from the ZTK

[Martin Aspeli]

Benji York wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Thomas Lotze <tl at gocept.com> wrote:
>> I just noticed that zope.testrecorder, which is listed in ztk.cfg as an
>> included package, imports from Globals, OFS, AccessControl and
>> Products.PageTemplates. This looks to me as if zope.testrecorder shouldn't
>> actually be part of the ZTK. It's also not used by any package mentioned
>> in ztk.cfg.
> 
> As one of the last few people to touch zope.testrecorder I should
> probably speak up with some background.
> 
> The package was created several years ago to experiment with writing a
> browser test recorder that could output either testbrowser tests or
> old-style functional tests.
> 
> It fell into disuse from almost the start but Philipp brought it out of
> mothballs to cover in his book.  Since then I don't know that anyone has
> worked on it -- or that it works at all, in fact.
> 
> I don't have any problem with it being dropped from the ZTK.

I know a lot of people are using testrecorder with Plone. That doesn't 
mean it has to be in the ZTK of course.

Martin

-- 
Author of `Professional Plone Development`, a book for developers who
want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book