[Zope3-dev] Re: zope.testbrowser and mechanize

[Chris Withers]

Stephan Richter wrote:
> I'll just note that I am +1 on all of Benji's comments. And I will remove the 
> offending checkins before I cut the branch, if noone else does.

Given that there are currently more people in favour of having useful 
docs than a pedantic exclusion policy, please _don't_ remove these until 
something else is done.

> Here my reasoning. I am currently writing a tool that allows you to convert 
> testbrowser tests into tutorials. That means that I am providing an 
> alternative implementation of the testbrowser interfaces (Benji, which are 
> not complete, btw). Mechanize is *not* part of that API and I am not using 
> mechanize to implement interfaces. If people would use the mechanize objects, 
> their test code could not be converted to tutorials.

Well, then you prevent people from creating tutorials involving file 
uploads, or introspection of controls. Now, I don't have a problem with 
this, and I'm not telling you _not_ to do it, so I'd appreciate you 
reciprocating and not stomping over stuff which I had to fiddle round 
with for a couple of hours to actually discover...

Chris

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