[TIP] Test functions with unittest2, reprise: philosophy

[Michael Foord]

On 05/03/2010 21:39, Victoria G. Laidler wrote:
> [snip...]
> Regarding this point
>> Testing can certainly be done in other ways - and I have no problem 
>> with other tools being used for those techniques. unittest does *not* 
>> intend to be a jack-of-all-trades. It does intend to be flexible 
>> enough for other people to build interesting things on top of - as my 
>> email was trying to demonstrate. 
>
> in light of Jason's messages about nose yesterday, I was getting a 
> pretty strong vibe of "we hardly need nose anyway since unittest2 has 
> so many of its features." If unittest won't support testing with 
> functions natively, then we will always need something more than 
> unittest.
>

Hence the need for (and utility in) nose2.

Michael

> cheers,
> Vicki
>


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