On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:06 PM, David Lyon <david.l...@preisshare.net> wrote: > > One of the big challenges for Python going forward is providing a testing > infrastructure for Python Packages. > > There are now over 6,000 packages listed on PyPi - and this number can only > get bigger. >
Interesting ideas, but I'm not sure I see the value. As a package developer I publish eggs for various Python versions and a source package. In some of my newer stuff I have been thinking of using 2.6+ features, which means I don't care if it runs on any other version. I've been fine so far in relying on my code running the same on all platforms. I don't use any of the platform specific modules, but if I did as a package developer I can just say "too bad -you need Linux". I have been bitten a few times by hardcoding '/' instead of os.path.sep, but I get a bug report and make a fix. So far no big deal. I think that if you do this or snakebite gets up and running then projects should opt in to platform/Python versions. -- David blog: http://www.traceback.org twitter: http://twitter.com/dstanek -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list