On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:44:30AM -0400, Casey Duncan wrote: > On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 17:50:13 -0400 > Paul Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've posted my proposal: > > http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/SanitizeHelpSysAndAPIReference > > I am 100% for this proposal and I have been thinking on and off about > the same thing for years. I agree that we need to create interfaces > everywhere. With that I propose the following to prevent future help > skew: > > - That all interfaces in the system be verified in unittests.
Pardon my ignorance, but what tests can you write for an interface? > - We eliminate the duplicate interfaces currently used by the help > system (Some of these are actually fairly up-to-date, so we should look > at them first). Yep. This was already in my proposal. > - If we create examples that they be runnable doctests, which are > executed by test.py > > The latter may mean we need a better integration test framework, I don't > know. I think we'd need to try out a few and see. I can certainly help > here. That would be much appreciated. I don't have a clue how to get the preconditions set up for doctests. > IMO this is a task ripe for a "divide and conquer" strategy. Maybe we > should have a "Help Day" to kick this off? good idea! But maybe we should let the proposal simmer at least a few more days? -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's COMMODORE FROM OUTER SPACE! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com) _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
