[Mailman-Developers] Fail to create a list with MM3 ALPHA

[Ian Eiloart]

--On 5 February 2009 11:48:12 -0500 Barry Warsaw <barry at list.org> wrote:

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> On Feb 5, 2009, at 7:59 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote:
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>> I think this is holding me up on my lmtp code. I need to be able to
>> write a test that allows me to create a list, add a member, and
>> change the member's posting permissions. All so that the lmtp server
>> can reject the message if the sender doesn't have permission to post
>> to the list.
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> Using the command line scripts in the test is not the right way to do
> that.  There are internal APIs for all that stuff.  See some of the
> existing doctests.

Ah, fair point. I should have engaged my brain first. Actually, our tests 
do use the API. I'll shut up now, and take a closer look at why they're not 
working.

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> The command line scripts should be a thin wrapper around the internal
> APIs, mostly to do option parsing and a bit of setup.  Some of the older
> scripts haven't been updated yet, but that's the design principle I'm
> shooting for.
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> Barry
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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
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