[Python-Dev] proto-pep: plugin proposal (for unittest) (original) (raw)

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Fri Jul 30 16:59:00 CEST 2010

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote: ...

Again I think the needs of unittest and distutils are different, so I wonder if a single system can usefully suit both our needs (let alone universally support other systems). Definitely an area worth exploring though.

Yes, even if they do if for different needs, both projects want to do the same thing: to be easily extensible by third party project.

If we can provide a generic tool for both unittest and distutils extensions use cases, that's great and that will probably be useful for other projects.

If we fail, I doubt we will ever have a generic plugin system in the stdlib.

But that worth trying I think, and having different use cases is good for this imho

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