Re: [Dirssync-opendisc] Testing, GUIs, and boa

[vincent d. <vin...@ya...>]

--- Mark Carter <xs...@uk...> wrote:
> I was investigating the possibility of testing
> dirssync. The main problem I face is that because
> dirssync is wrapped up in a GUI, it makes it nigh on
> impossible to test its functionality.
> 
> What really needs to happen is to separate
> functionality from GUI - which has the added
> advantage that people who don't want to use the GUI
> don't have to.
> 
I've tryied to splt the GUI from the rest. That's why
the class Transfer has been created. All the
synchronisation functionalities are there, the rest is
pure GUI.
It seems that you have not the same feeling. 
You are maybe right, because patch after patch, this
split was not striclty followed.
It's may be a good opportunity to rewrite DirsSync.



> This raises a further issue - if the GUI is going to
> be separated out, then why not strip out the GUI
> stuff completely, and rebuild it using
> boa-constructor - a real-cool tool for authoring
> python, especially when it comes to GUI
> construction.
> 
Yes, I know Boa, It's a quite good IDE for wxPython.  
But In 2000 Boa was not so good. May be now, it's the
good time to re-try it.

> Comments?
> 
I'm interested by the initiative and will support it.
>
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