[TIP] Green and Red bars

[Mark Roddy]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Olemis Lang <olemis at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Mark Roddy <markroddy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Olemis Lang <olemis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Michael Foord
>>> <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
>>>>  On 21/10/2010 16:01, Olemis Lang wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> [snip...]
>>>>> Is it a good idea to add a similar Tkinter GUI runner in stdlib (even
>>>>> if it is outside unittest module , let's say e.g. in unittestgui
>>>>> module) ?
>>>>
>>>> It could live in tools and I certainly wouldn't be opposed to it. It is
>>>> something I have considered, especially now that unittest does test
>>>> discovery, I just haven't had time to work on it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> ok, good to know. I suppose we all (specially Natalia) have good
>>> reasons to look forward for this to happen.
>>>
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>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Olemis.
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>>
>> Out of curiosity I pulled down the code from sourceforge, and the GUI
>> seems to work out of the box with unittest2 (after doing a search and
>> replace on the module import).  At least it does for the tests across
>> my code base at work.
>>
>
> Cool ! Good news for considering it as a starting point (I was hoping
> that unittest had not changed throughout all these years ...)
>
> But I suppose 'green and red bars' should still become 'green, yellow,
> orange, and red bars (add your own !!!)'
>
> ;o)
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Olemis.
>
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And I agree with Michael on adding support for test discovery.
Requiring users to 'enter a name of a callable object which returns a
TestSuite' is a bit combersome.

-Mark