[qmtest] QMTest plans

[Rodrigo Belem]

> Rodrigo Belem wrote:
> > Hello everybody,

> Thanks for pointing out the ExceptionTest issue. I'll look into it more, since
> I don't yet
> understand what change in Python's exception handling causes it. (And yes, I
> would appreciate
> any solution you may already have come up with !)
>

I'll look deeper to code a solution :-)

> > Would you like to receive patches changing the code to use some PEPs (Python
> > Enhancement Proposals)?
> > My suggestions are the pep-0008[0], pep-0257[1], pep-0290[2].
>
> From looking at the PEPs you mention I take it you are most interested in
> stylistic cleanup (as
> opposed to new features, or fixes to open issues). Correct ?
>

Yes, for now just stylistic cleanup. I think doing by this way I'll
learn the code and the code maintenance will become easier. After this
I'll be ready to do another things.

> > And how about changing modules to use subprocess[3] as a command
> > executer, and other similar changes?
>
> As much as I'd appreciate any cleanup, it is important to remain backward
> compatible (such as with
> Python 2.3, which doesn't have the subprocess module).
>

A python version verification could be done to select the module to
use. We can place some warning messages that qmtest will work with
python from 2.4. What do you think?

> > BTW, any plans to release a new version? When?
>
> There are no concrete plans (neither concerning any date, nor a feature set).
> I'm currently working on a new GUI (still using some Zope modules) that will
> hopefully be
> more flexible and easy to customize.
> I also have a new 'Expectation Database' type in the works that allows to more
> flexibly
> and conveniently handle expectations and the way they are specified and stored.
> Finally, there is some efford going into API cleanup.
>
> If you have any particular things you'd like to see enhanced in QMTest, I'm
> very much interested
> to know about them. (Contributions are certainly appreciated, too, though it
> would be good to
> coordinate first to avoid to waste anyone's effort.)
>

There is another interesting project[0] that you can get some ideias.
I know almost all source code.


I have another thing to ask you. Could you setup an access to the svn
via https webdav?



Thanks,


Rodrigo Belem.


[0] http://pyret.sf.net