[TIP] nose2: the nosening

Jesse Noller jnoller at gmail.com
Thu Aug 5 18:23:28 PDT 2010


On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 5:42 PM, jason pellerin <jpellerin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> http://bitbucket.org/jpellerin/nose2
>
> It begins! Requires the plugins branch of unittest2 from
> hg.python.org. Much does not actually work, because it's loading its
> plugins in a wrong and evil way.
>
> This brings up a unittest2 feature request, of course. As it stands
> it's not that easy for a framework to declare a bunch of plugins that
> it wants loaded automatically. Maybe TestProgram.__init__ can take a
> configFiles option? Or in some other way allow a framework to inject
> its list of plugins into the normal plugin loading process?
>
> Oh and yeah, this is the part where everybody who said "I want to
> help!" can start helping. :) Even if that just means filing issues in
> the bitbucket tracker or cataloging the weird things that nose does
> that nose2 should also do (or not). Whatever you can do, if you care
> about there being a nose2, the time has come to pitch in -- it won't
> make it to pypi without you.
>
> Thanks,
>
> JP

Well played sir! Well played indeed.

jesse

ps: If nose2/unittest2 could find it in it's shiny new innocent heart
to say, have support for test generators; I'd die happy.



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