[Checkins] SVN: zope.testbrowser/trunk/ Fix bug introduced in 3.4.1 that created incompatible tracebacks in doctests.

Stephan Richter srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu
Sat Nov 3 13:31:27 EDT 2007


On Saturday 03 November 2007, Benji York wrote:
> Log message for revision 81431:
>   Fix bug introduced in 3.4.1 that created incompatible tracebacks in
> doctests. This neccesitated adding a patched mechanize to the source tree;
> patches have been sent to the mechanize project.

Yeah, you are right, I changed the errors since the last version of 
mechanize -- 0.1.7b -- throws the wrong error. I should have used RE 
normalizers to fix the problem instead of rewriting the doc tests. I will go 
through the packages that are effected and fix that.

A couple other notes about the checkin. 

Specifying versions in either the setup.py or buildout.cfg is a really bad 
idea because it makes it impossible for people with different KGSs to work on 
packages. The only sane solution that I see right now is to use KGSs, such as 
http://download.zope.org/zope3.4, as index pages.

Also, I am not sure that including mechanize in the testbrowser release is a 
good idea. What if other packages in my repos also use mechanize, but they 
rely on the good and bad things of the released packages? I think this will 
end in a big mess.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training


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