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[Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2010-09-29 06:02, Robert Collins wrote:

> Everyone else may know this already, but layers are a pretty poor
> interface, at least the way they are used in LP's test suite.

Yay for revisiting our layers setup!

If I may add a pet peeve of my own: the email stub. 
LaunchpadScriptLayer (and no lighter layer, for no other reason that I 
can see than the layers system) does this:

    provideUtility(TestMailBox(), IMailBox)

...after which email gets captured in a global variable.  I'd love to 
see that become a fixture or resource that I can use in more 
fine-grained tests without setting up a full LaunchpadLayer.


Jeroen