[qmtest] [PATCH] Removing ExtensionClass dependency

[Mark Mitchell]

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 22:30, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> One of the barriers to installing qmtest into the normal Python search
> path is that it includes local copies of Zope's ExtensionClass and
> DocumentTemplate, which may interfere with user-installed versions of
> the same packages.  Also, it's a bit ugly.

Thanks for faxing your assignment!

I've been thinking more about this patch.

First, I'm really keen on the idea of making QMTest play nicer with a
standard Python installation, so that you use QMTest from other Python
software.  On the other hand, the first priority is still making QMTest
easy to use as an application.  (For example, we want to start providing
binary distributions that actually include pre-built Python binaries so
that users can download everything they need in a single download.)

Could we solve the same problem you're trying to solve in a different
way, namely, by providing a --without-dtml configure flag?  The idea
being that if you already had that somewhere where Python was going to
find it that you could configure with this flag to ignore the version in
the QMTest source tree?

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