[Zope3-dev] Twisted Upgrade

[Michael Kerrin]

Hi All,

  Jim brought up the issue on IRC that I have known about for a while 
now that Twisted in Zope3 really needs to be updated. There are few 
other related issues that need to be sorted out apart from getting Zope3 
running and all its tests passing. So I propose:

   1. SFTP - lets just rip this out - it doesn't work and I don't have 
the interest to carry this any further.

   2. Tests. I added code to zope.app.twisted to make the Twisted trial 
tests run within  the zope testrunner (these are needed to test the 
Twisted / Zope3 FTP integration). But in later versions of Twisted trial 
does run, without modification, in the zope testrunner. So I propose 
adding tests to zope.testing to make sure that this still is the case - 
as there is nothing more annoying then tests that always pass no matter 
what happens. This wouldn't change any functionality of zope.testing but 
will just be a few extra tests that get run only iff twisted is installed.

   3. Don't use an external branch, but import a Twisted release into 
the Zope repository. This was brought up before by some one after the 
Twisted subversion server went down and the Zope buildbot failed.

  A while back I got Zope3 running with the Twisted trunk and the tests 
passing with some changes to Zope. So over the weekend I will plan to 
make a branch available with the goal of getting all the work done so 
far out there and to get on with the rest of the issues.

  Any other issues, questions on this topic?

  Michael