Code review comment for lp:~mars/zope.testing/fix-subunit-utf8-traceback-reporting

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Māris Fogels (mars) wrote :

> I'm -1 on doing any further work on the subunit stuff on the trunk until
> we clean up the testing story: at the moment, the features are
> completely untested in 95% of the developement environments where folks
> work on zope.testing / zope.testrunner, because subunit cannot be
> installed in them.
>
> I have a branch merge pending to add distutils support to subunit for
> the Python libraries and scripts, which would make releasing them to
> PyPI as an sdist feasible. Once that occurs, we can make the
> 'subunit-python' egg a testing dependency for zope.testing /
> zope.testrunner, and ensure that the features don't bitrot.
>
>
> Tres.

Tres, I agree, but does "any further work" include bugfixes to the subunit code? I have spent weeks hunting these bugs down. It would be a pity to lose them. (I may have more fixes coming, too.)

Maris

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