[Zope3-dev] zope.testbrowser packaging

[Benji York]

I have a small issue with zope.testbrowser packaging I'd like to get 
some input on.  If I were to have started the project today, it would 
likely have been zc.testbrowser, which would have no Zope 3 dependencies 
(or functionality) and zc.testbrowser.zope, which would have, and 
depended on zc.testbrowser.  Well, that didn't happen, but there are 
parallels to the current situation that might be informative.

There is a configuration bug in testbrowser that means that unless you 
include the "test" extra, you won't get the Zope 3 dependencies.  I 
suspect most people either include that extra, or accidentally include 
the dependencies through other packages.  I have two ideas for fixing this:

1) introduce a "zope" extra that everyone will have to use (basically 
just rename "test" to "zope";

2) take a lesson from the fictional zc.testbrowser and introduce another 
package (zope.testbrowser.zope) that contains the Zope 3 bits and 
depends on zope.testbrowser.

I think I prefer the second, despite it's strange appearance.  Thoughts?
-- 
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation