separate trial release (was Re: [Twisted-Python] Twisted Jabber

[Jonathan Lange]

On 27/10/05, glyph at divmod.com <glyph at divmod.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:52:37 +1100, Jonathan Lange <jml at mumak.net> wrote:
> >On 27/10/05, Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at divmod.com> wrote:
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> > (...) the reactor stuff is going in TestCase.
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> I believe I've lodged a disagreement with you before about this.  If you really think it's best I'll trust your judgement more than mine, since you're certainly doing a bang-up job getting trial into useful shape, but I'll still try to convince you :).
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> The reactor should be started by the command-line tool and stopped after all tests are done.

My judgement is suspended for the moment.  My own opinion is that we
should bang Trial into a unittest shape first (because that is the
closest non-Cthulhain shape to what is currently there).

Only once that's done do I want to start thinking about how best to
re-gut Trial so that it treats the reactor with the decorum it
deserves.  In the interim, unittest compatibility is simply a cool
feature.

> Are there any such third-party extensions which have value?
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subunit and testresource are two.  I'm told datatest (see
http://twistedmatrix.com/bugs/issue529, link at bottom 404s) is
another.

cheers,
jml